Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) often seem to possess a narrow repertoire of cognitive strategies. In particular, they have difficulties in learning and internalizing the rules and strategies that other people intuitively use to approach common everyday problems. As a result, they often appear to have organizational, planning, memory and learning difficulties. The articl...

Visual representations have long been advocated by educators as cognitive tools to enhance student learning. However, visual mapping of concepts and ideas are also part of the design and development tools of graphic and interface designers (drawings and sketches), media producers (story boards), and programmers (flow charts). In higher education settings, the use of visual representations that ...

Concept mapping is a technique used to provide a visual representation of an individual’s ideas about a concept or set of related concepts. This paper describes a concept mapping tool using a photograph association technique (CoMPAT) that is considered to be a novel way of eliciting children’s ideas. What children at 11 years of age know about particular concepts related to microbial activity i...

Concept mapping has a history of use in many disciplines as a formal or semi-formal diagramming technique. Concept maps have an abstract structure as typed hypergraphs, and computer support for concept mapping can associate visual attributes with node types to provide an attractive and consistent appearance. Computer support can also provide interactive interfaces allowing arbitrary actions to ...

The study examines metaphor selection for the same abstract concept when multiple concrete dimensions are available use. Drawing on power concept, four studies investigated roles of attention and visual features in metaphoric mapping. In Studies 1 2, two (vertical space size) were visually connected to power-related target words simultaneously, one was salient. Attention driven by stimulus sali...

Concept maps have been used in education, policy studies and the philosophy of science to provide a visual representation of knowledge structures and argument forms. They provide a complementary alternative to natural language as a means of communicating knowledge. In many disciplines various forms of concept map are already used as formal knowledge representation systems, for example: semantic...

In this paper, we present our proposed approach that deals with two important steps in the retrieval process, which are query analysis and relevance-based ranking. First, query analysis takes into account two forms of queries: textual and visual which present the form of queries provided by ImageCLEF in the task “Visual concept detection, annotation, and retrieval using Flickr photos ”. The mai...