Mind maps have been used for many (including educational) purposes. Several tools are available for visualizing and creating those maps. However, evaluation and feedback is rarely available in such tools and thus, an important aspect of interactive exercises is missing. This paper presents the interactive concept map tool, ICMAP, that is integrated with the web-based learning environment ACTIVE...

Chemical product and process design teaching is facing challenges due to the major changes occurred in the last decades in the chemical industry. The emergence of products as a focus for chemical engineers implies changes in what chemical engineers do. It is important to prepare students for the more diverse, flexible roles they are expected to perform in industry and nowadays it is requisite t...

Mind mapping is a presentation form of radiant thinking, utilizing lines, colors, characters, numbers, symbols, image, pictures or keywords, etc. to associate, integrate and visualize the learned concept and evoke brain potential. Through mind maps, one’s attention, coordination ability, logic, reasoning, thinking, analyzing, creativity, imagination, memory, ability of planning and integration,...

Mind maps have not received much attention in the user modeling and recommender system community, although mind maps contain rich information that could be valuable for user-modeling and recommender systems. In this paper, we explored the effectiveness of standard user-modeling approaches applied to mind maps. Additionally, we develop novel user modeling approaches that consider the unique char...

Mind-maps have been widely neglected by the information retrieval (IR) community. However, there are an estimated two million active mind-map users, who create 5 million mind-maps every year, of which a total of 300,000 is publicly available. We believe this to be a rich source for information retrieval applications, and present eight ideas on how mind-maps could be utilized by them. For instan...

Recent studies have shown that the existence of a poor requirements elicitation or the lack of this activity, during the information system development, have generated a series of system failures and resulted in unsatisfied customers. Among several reasons, the no user participation in the conceptual modelling process stands out. Another important issue is considering the need for creating a co...

Mind-graphs define an associative-adaptive concept of managing information streams, like for example words within a conversation. Being composed of vertices (or cells; representing external stimuli like words) and undirected edges (or connections), mind-graphs adaptively reflect the strength of simultaneously occurring stimuli and allow a self-regulation through the interplay of an artificial ’...

The more scientists learn about the brain, the more we learn about its infinite plasticity. ... If there is a challenge to one part of the brain, we can learn to revive other parts to make all sections of the mind work together. (Elaine Colliar, “mind-mapping” champion, on how a visualization technique might be used to overcome reading impairments in developmental dyslexia; Kenyon, 2002) JOURNA...

This paper describes a human-agent interaction in which a user and a life-like agent mutually acquire the other’s mind mapping through a mutual mind reading game. In these several years, a lot of studies have been done on a life-like agent such a Micro Soft agent, an interface agent. Through development of various life-like agents, a mind like emotion, processing load has been recognized to pla...