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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Abstract concepts"”.
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The Importance of Situational Information for Abstract Concepts
Very little is known about how people understand abstract concepts. While a good deal is known about concrete concepts such as chair or apple, concepts that are perceptually elusive, such as idea or freedom, remain a challenge for theories of conceptual knowledge. Past research has explained how …
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The Meaning of Abstract Concepts to Deaf and Hearing Children
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Understanding the Meanings of Abstract Concepts: Keeping it Grounded and Real
Abstract words refer to things and entities in the world that cannot be directly experienced through our senses (e.g., truth, morality). How we learn, represent, and use abstract words is one of the deepest problems in cognitive science today. I investigated this question in two experiments. In …
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Digital Video and Mathematics: Helping High School Students Understand and Interpret Abstract Concepts
… act as a medium that helps students visualize abstract concepts, (2) the use of multiple representations help show the interconnectedness of ideas, but students still seem to have difficulty interpreting the relationship among concepts, (3) the use of cross grade level evaluations suggest that …
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Investigation and development of a tangible technology framework for highly complex and abstract concepts
… systems for enhancing the learning experience of abstract and complex computational science and technology-based concepts within higher educational institutions (HEI)s. Based on the proposal of a contextually apt TUI architecture, the research describes the design and development of eight distinct …
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Racey Bear's Legacy: Metaphor as a Bridge to Children's Understanding and Expression of Abstract Concepts
… ability to express their understanding of five abstract concepts. It was found that working with metaphor enhanced their abilities to grasp the concepts, in various and surprising ways. It was also found that their abilities to express their understanding was enhanced subtly.
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PolyFS Visualizer
… of a computer. However, file systems, with their abstract concepts and lack of concrete learning aids, is a confusing subjects for students. Historically at Cal Poly, the CPE 453 Introduction to Operating Systems has been on of the most failed classes in the computing majors, leading to the need …
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Global 0ptimization of pairwise comparisons matrix based on differential evolution algorithm
… are commonly used when different entities or abstract concepts are compared for making decisions. The compared entities for decision making can be both subjective and objective indicators. The elements in PCM are ratios in case of multiplicative version. Using differential evolution (DE) …
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Towards a Generalised Pedagogical Framework for Creating Mixed-Mode Role-Play in a 3D Virtual Environment
… finding the simplest way to model and represent abstract concepts as 3D objects; and implementing the students’ interactions - with each other, with their instructor, and with the represented objects. Also, many projects have focused on only one pedagogical topic. My vision is to introduce a …
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Way of tea, way of life, and way of art education: learning through performative metaphor
… in weekly tea ceremonies. The students learned abstract concepts and meanings through the physical performance of tea ceremony. I see the rituals of tea ceremony as performative metaphors, which connect an abstract concept with our performance. A simple and ordinary act of serving and drinking a …
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Visualization for Verification Driven Learning in Database Studies
… model. The goal of the VDL model is to present abstract concepts in the contexts of real-world systems to students in the early stages of computer science program. In this project, a personnel/training management system has been turned into a learning platform by adding a number of features for …
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STUDIES IN QUANTUM CONTROL AND QUANTUM INFORMATION
This thesis translates abstract concepts from quantum information theory into physical control protocols designed for cooling, error recovery, and quantum metrology. The physical platforms utilized in this work include qubits, quantum harmonic oscillators, and their composite systems. In the first …
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Toward ontological visual understanding
… both emphasizing the ontological structure among concepts including object, scene, and event. The inference and learning make use of mutual relations among these concepts, and are general for any concept and initial concept recognition. Our experiments show that the proposed frameworks are able to …
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The contemporary storyteller in context: a study of storytelling in modern society
… While drawing from traditional sources and abstract concepts concerning what is traditional storytelling, contemporary storytelling practitioners' methods often focus on stories and the act of telling devoid of contexts and the evolution of storytelling in modern society. They rely on …
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Collaborative Storytelling: Composition Pedagogy and Communal Benefits of Narrative Innovation
… into pedagogy by teaching students more abstract concepts of interactivity with narrative, audience, and player engagement, TTRPGs have been slower on the draw. But incorporating the highly interactive and freeform narrative structure into composition curriculum is far from impossible. In …
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Flowness + FlowBlocks : uncovering the dynamics of everyday life through playful modeling
… special attention to physical representation of abstract concepts (a field pioneered by Maria Montessori). FlowBlocks are a set of wooden blocks with embedded computation that simulate continuous flow using a moving light signal, making dynamic processes visible and manipulable.
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Student Perceptions of the Defining Aspects of a Mathematics Methods Course that Aided in the Development of a Conceptual Understanding of Mathematics
… providing concrete items to use in explaining abstract concepts. Ultimately, requiring pre-service to explain their own thought processes, with and without manipulatives, aided them in developing a conceptual understanding of mathematics.
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Coloring time with CodaChrome
… reveal the way young people understand abstract concepts related to the notions of space, time and space-time interrelationships. This thesis reports on the design and evaluation of the activities, the development of the CodaChrome system, and the evolution of our methodology for …
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User feedback in design for emerging markets : methods and influencing factors
… although users had difficulty with more abstract concepts. Demographics played an important role in that younger and/or more educated users were more open to giving criticism and asking questions. Users were generally able to understand that prototypes were only a representation. 3-D …
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