This research look at environments for distant learning from a perspective of cognitive ergonomy and computer interface design. We will some studies and systems for distant learning and report on usability evaluation that were done with learners. We will then draw from their limitations some principles of a better adapted interaction and a model for a better interface. Finally ExploraGraph a fr...

This paper is an overview of our work to deal with scenario representation and management model in Online Distant Learning domain. Our approach is based on scenario structuring using the notion of “situation”. A “situation” is an elementary building block dividing the interactions between actors into contextual scenes. This pattern not only supports the scenario execution, but also its creation...

To solve the problems of teacher shortage and their indirect educational qualifications in underprivileged rural schools, Government Thailand has issued policy to use eDLTV media (Electronic Distance Learning TV Media) its pedagogical system. Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University is assigned as one institutions promote application such Northeast country. Assigned by university, support mission, res...

Future information society will widely use Internet-based technologies not only for gathering information but also for educational purposes and for the cooperative work. The paper gives an overview of techniques suitable for these tasks using standardized 3-dimensional virtual environment (VRML) as a framework and a common platform. Theoretical considerations are followed by practical experiments.

Deep learning is an emerging technology that is considered one of the most promising directions for reaching higher levels of artificial intelligence. Among the other achievements, building computers that understand speech represents a crucial leap towards intelligent machines. Despite the great efforts of the past decades, however, a natural and robust human-machine speech interaction still ap...

Distant supervision is a widely applied approach to automatic training of relation extraction systems and has the advantage that it can generate large amounts of labelled data with minimal effort. However, this data may contain errors and consequently systems trained using distant supervision tend not to perform as well as those based on manually labelled data. This work proposes a novel method...

A successful application area of mobile technology for learning has been to provide location-based guides that inform students or tourists about their immediate surroundings. In this paper we extend this location-based learning to the distant landscape, so that a visitor to an unfamiliar area can ask “what can I see over there?”, or can annotate the landscape by taking photos of distant feature...

CORAL(CoOperative Remote Access Learning) system, a WWW-based distant and cooperative learning system, was originally developed with a single-server architecture. Currently some organizations and schools may own self CORAL servers to provide the distance learning for their employees and students. However, the original design of the single-server architecture cause no linkages between these CORA...

Emotions play an important role in cognitive processes and specially in learning tasks. Online learning is no exception. Detecting a learner’s emotional reaction for a given situation is an essential element for every Distant Learning Environment. Nevertheless, inferring a learner’s emotional reaction in those environments is not a trivial task. In this paper, we present an agent capable of pre...