This article discusses the difficulties that arose when attempting to specify and design a large scale digital learning environment for Scottish schools. This had a potential user base of about 1 million users and was intended to replace an existing, under-used system. We found that the potential system users were not interested in engaging with the project and that there were immense problems ...

This paper contains the motivation for the study of critical surfaces in [2]. In that paper, the only justification given for the definition of this new class of surfaces is the strength of the results. However, when viewed as the topological analogue to index 2 minimal surfaces, critical surfaces become quite natural.

The structure of a choice-driven interactive story can be modeled as a syntax tree, generated by a player from a grammar, which in turn was generated by a game author. Using this grammar metaphor, “Boswell”, a web-based Integrated Development Environment, was developed for writing, testing, playing and sharing choice-based interactive fiction scripts. The system includes a domain-specific langu...

Two recent TICS articles [1,2] converge on the idea that in mature reading written words are coded by an abstract neural representation comprising either “open bigrams” [2] or bigrams in combination with larger units [1]. For example, the input TAKE is represented by the units TA TK TE AK AE and KE. However, open bigrams do not map onto phonology. Because phonology is fundamental in beginning a...

The article deals with relationships between mathematical models and knowledge maps. The goal of the article is to suggest how to use the mathematical model as a knowledge map and/or as a part (esp. the inference mechanism) of the knowledge system. The results are demonstrated on the case study, when the knowledge from a story is expressed by mathematical model. The model is used for both knowl...

the present article is an attempt to review the syrian short storyfrom the period between 1931 to 1947 and its development. syrian short stories in this period are affected by cultural, political and historical events.