Prediction of Distant Educational Goals by Goals in Other Domains and Perceived Contextual Opportunities

Discovering Service Opportunities by Evaluating Service Goals

In this paper we outline an approach to discovering and maintaining telecom Service Opportunities between distributed communicating peers. The approach is based on exchanging and comparing Service Goals. When we use the term service in the context of this article, we consistently refer to communication control services, as opposed to application services in its widest sense, or to transport ser...

User Interface Goals, AI Opportunities

Is AI antithetical to good user interface design? From the earliest times in the development of computers, activities in human-computer interaction (HCI) and AI have been intertwined. But as subfields of computer science, HCI and AI have always had a love-hate relationship. The goal of HCI is to make computers easier to use and more helpful to their users. The goal of artificial intelligence is...

Why Figurative Language: Perceived Discourse Goals for Metaphors and Similes by L2 Learners

The goal of this study was to investigate the kinds of discourse goals that Iranian EFL learners perceive as the most probable reasons behind the utterance of figurative language, metaphors and similes, with reference to 4 independent variables of Figure Type (Metaphor or Simile), Tenor Concreteness (Concrete or Abstract), Context (List Format or Story), and Modality (Oral, Written, and Both). ...

Integrating Educational Research and Practice: Reconceptualizing Goals

Goals Affect the Perceived Quality of Explanations

Do people evaluate the quality of explanations differently depending on their goals? In particular, are explanations of different kinds (formal, mechanistic, teleological) judged differently depending on the future judgments the evaluator anticipates making? We report two studies demonstrating that the perceived “goodness” of explanations depends on the evaluator’s current goals, with explanati...