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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"microworld"”.
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Sofia.Micro: An Android-Based Pedagogical Microworld Framework
Microworlds are visual, 2D grid-based worlds with programmable actors that help ease students into programming. Microworlds have been used as a pedagogical tool for teaching students to program in an object-oriented paradigm for several years now. With the popularity of Android smart phones, …
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Giving the head a hand : constructing a microworld to build relationships with ideas in balance control
… complex for young learners. A Balance Control Microworld was created to help learners think about how to program physical robots to perform balancing acts, such as balancing an inverted pendulum, based on the observations of their own body motions. A Spatial Computing Paradigm (SCP) was …
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Microworlds, Poetry and Programming: Block-Based Programming for Literacy and Computational Thinking in Secondary Education in Wales
… of how learning happens with computers using a microworlds-based approach to learning. The aim of Turtle Graphics was simple: through the act of learning to program an on-screen Turtle, learners also develop their conceptual understanding in other domains such as mathematics.<br/><br/>In …
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TofuDraw : choreographing robot behavior through Digital Painting
… objects that allow children to explore a ́microworld where theater is the primary language. Evaluations of the TofuDraw system with children ages 3-8 suggest that children can incorporate the presented expressive robotic characters into their fantasy play patterns and control the expressive …
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Using multimedia microworlds to motivate and engage adult learners
… learning environment in the form of a microworld with gaming elements was designed and developed to incorporate the eight learner effects, and this was then trialed with a small group of finance students. The trial forms the basis for this thesis. The study was conducted using a …
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The Impact of Instrumentation Location and Reliability on the Performance of Operators Using an Ecological Interface for Process Control
… of an EID-based interface for a pasteurization microworld simulation representative of industrial process control systems. The results of this research were the following. First, the Abstraction Hierarchy was uniquely extended to indicate instrumentation requirements to support human-machine …
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Validation of the recognition-primed decision model and the roles of common-sense strategies in an adversarial environment
… by setting up an adversarial decision making microworld, as an experimental platform, using a real time strategy (RTS) game called Rise of Nations (RON). The specific objectives of this dissertation were: 1.Contribute to the validation of recognition-primed decision (RPD) model in a simulated …
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Návrh mikrorobotů – technologie v mikrosvětě
Tato práce si klade za úkol představit problematiku návrhu mikrorobotů a mikrosystémů. Práce klade důraz především na technologie, které jsou vhodné pro aplikaci v mikrosvětě a jejich výrobu. V závěru práce je shrnutí směřování budoucího vývoje mikrorobotů.