Personal Viewpoint

Personal Viewpoint

Multi-viewpoint ontology construction and classification by non-experts and crowdsourcing: the case of diet effect on health

Domain experts are skilled to build a narrow ontology that reflects their sub-field of expertise. It will be grounded on their work experience and personal beliefs. We call this type of ontology a single-viewpoint ontology. There can be a variety of such single viewpoint ontologies for a given domain that represent a wide spectrum of sub-fields and expert opinions on the domain. But to have a c...

3D Model Viewer with Real-time Viewpoint Tracking System

Today, it has become very popular to represent 3D CG models onto the screen of a workstation or personal computer. In almost all software that displays 3D models, users can control their viewpoint of projection with pointing devices such as a mouse or trackball. However it is not intuitive to control the viewpoint with such devices, because there is an insufficient degree of freedom. Although l...

Subjective vs. Objective Evaluation of Ontological Statements with Crowdsourcing

In this paper we propose and test a methodology for evaluation of statements of a multi-viewpoint ontology by crowdsourcing. The task for the workers was to assess each of the given statement as true statements, controversial viewpoint statement or error. Typically, in crowdsourcing experiments the workers are asked for their personal opinions on the given subject. However, in our case their ab...

Understanding ChildrenÕs Programming as Poor Learning Environments

Poor learning environments (PLEs) encourage personal commitment and deep understanding. In this paper, I argue that childrenÕs programming should be understood from the viewpoint of PLEs.