The authoring of fictional stories is considered a creative process. The purpose of most story au-thoring is not to invent a new style or genre of story that will be accepted by the population but to invent a single narrative that is novel enough to be tellable. Computational story generation systems are more limited in the space of narratives than human authors because it is often the case tha...

Multimedia presentations are often intended to cater for a wide range of viewing scenarios, encompassing variety with respect to factors including the delivery platform, audience experience level and individual reader preferences. Existing presentation-building tools either make no provision for such variation, or go some way by providing generic information structures that are interpreted at t...

This paper presents an adaptive Web testing system where the adaptation of the testing procedure relies on the performance, the prior knowledge and the goals and preferences of the test participants. The main aim of the paper is to discuss the utility of the adaptive assessment tool. Therefore, the paper presents the authoring process of a number of adaptive assessments, where the educators uti...

This paper reports on a new pedagogy for Chinese language teaching and learning at elementary schools through exploratory classroom instruction using Information and Communication Technologies. The study used quantitative method to collect data from two elementary schools of China. The results showed that:(1) the three-in-one pedagogy of “character recognition, in-class reading and in-class wri...

We describe a pilot on evaluating exploratory search inWikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. The pilot will be held at CLEF 2006, and brings together both search and navigation, and reading and authoring.

To ensure continuous usability evaluation of web documents, this position paper proposes integrating evaluation methods and techniques into practical authoring tools.

This paper studies the effect of individual differences on user performance related to text-recognition CAPTCHA challenges. In particular, a text-recognition CAPTCHA mechanism was deployed in a three-month user study to investigate the effect of individuals’ different cognitive processing abilities, targeting on speed of processing, controlled attention and working memory capacity toward effici...

Immersive authoring refers to the style of programming or developing content from within the targetexecutable environment. Immersive authoring is important for fields such as augmented reality (AR) in which interaction usability and user perception of the target content must be checked first hand, in situ. In addition, the interaction efficiency and usability of the authoring tools itself is eq...