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Edulearn09 Proceedings, 2009
... Laura Farinetti, Alessandra Rasetti Politecnico di Torino Torino, Italy {laura.farinetti, ale... more ... Laura Farinetti, Alessandra Rasetti Politecnico di Torino Torino, Italy {laura.farinetti, alessandra.rasetti}@polito.it Abstract ... What's innovation? by Luigi Bistagnino. La sostenibilità è un diritto (English translation: Sustainability is a right) by Carlo Petrini. ...
This paper describes an experience of synchronous distance education through videoconferencing fo... more This paper describes an experience of synchronous distance education through videoconferencing for pro-viding remote tutoring sessions, made at Politecnico di Torino. The major requirement, a high degree of inter-activity between the teacher and the students, influ- ...
2000 Ieee International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Icme2000 Proceedings Latest Advances in the Fast Changing World of Multimedia, Feb 1, 2000
Page 1. An educational-oriented framework for building on-line courses using XML Florin Bota Laur... more Page 1. An educational-oriented framework for building on-line courses using XML Florin Bota Laura Farinetti Anca Rarau European Studies Dip. Automatica e Informatica Computer Science Department University of Cluj-Napoca Politecnico di Torino Technical Univ. ...
Webnet, 2000
The paper describes an educational application, oriented to university students, to help them to ... more The paper describes an educational application, oriented to university students, to help them to learn the SQL language in the ambit of a course on database systems and applications. This tool is integrated with a XML-based framework for courseware authoring, whose main characteristic is flexibility, since contents are presented to the students in different ways, depending on their previous knowledge,
ABSTRACT Tliis chapter presents an online knowledge evaluation system that allows students to tak... more ABSTRACT Tliis chapter presents an online knowledge evaluation system that allows students to take exams on the Internet, implemented and used, at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, An evolution of the system is used in an XML dynamic courseware framework for student self-evaluation. The system is based on a modular design, permitting future expansion.
Tesi di Laurea Funzionalità avanzate di visualizzazione tridimensionale di ontologie Relatori: pr... more Tesi di Laurea Funzionalità avanzate di visualizzazione tridimensionale di ontologie Relatori: prof. Fulvio Corno ing. Laura Farinetti Candidato: Massimo Piccinno settembre 2005
Information and communication technologies can have a key role in helping people with special edu... more Information and communication technologies can have a key role in helping people with special educational needs, considering both physical and cognitive disabilities. The paper describes an input device, based on eye tracking techniques, that allows people with severe motor disabilities to use gaze for selecting specific areas on a computer screen. Compared to other existing solutions, the strong points of
Abstract Given the increasing amount of Internet accessible information, the role of search engi... more Abstract Given the increasing amount of Internet accessible information, the role of search engines is getting higher, but classical query string-based interfaces are inadequate for inexperienced users, who can't express relevant keywords. The paper proposes a transparent search ...
Iswc, Oct 4, 2003
The effective implementation of the Semantic Web vision is highly dependent upon the widespread a... more The effective implementation of the Semantic Web vision is highly dependent upon the widespread availability of large collections of semantically rich resources which are trustworthy and meaningful. Since semantic classification is dependent upon complex ontologies, a recognised difficulty is the steep learning curve presented to human classifiers when attempting to utilise such ontologies. One important method to foster an increase in web accessible, semantically tagged resources is to make available tools which allow users to explore and understand relevant ontologies and to present relevant categories with which to tag new data. In this paper we investigate how an important and powerful data mining technique, Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), might help in the design and implementation of tools that guide users in semantic tagging tasks. We applied LSI to a large portion of the Open Directory Project (ODP) catalogue, one of the largest repositories of semantically tagged resources available today. We computed statistical information concerning category relationships in the ODP data set, and we incorporated structural information by modifying the construction process of the LSI space. Using this basis, we conducted a comparative experiment where a machine generated classification of new documents was evaluated against a classification created by a group of human users. This paper includes an evaluation and discussion of the experimental results.
Abstract: The paper describes the use of XML for creating an application oriented to the design a... more Abstract: The paper describes the use of XML for creating an application oriented to the design and the implementation of Internet courses, that is an authoring tool whose main characteristic is the capability of producing on-line courses with a structure and an ...
Abstract: The paper describes an educational application, oriented to university students, to hel... more Abstract: The paper describes an educational application, oriented to university students, to help them to learn the SQL language in the ambit of a course on database systems and applications. This tool is integrated with a XML-based framework for courseware authoring ...
2015 IEEE 39th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2015
Incorporating Advancements, 2012
Edulearn09 Proceedings, 2009
... Laura Farinetti, Alessandra Rasetti Politecnico di Torino Torino, Italy {laura.farinetti, ale... more ... Laura Farinetti, Alessandra Rasetti Politecnico di Torino Torino, Italy {laura.farinetti, alessandra.rasetti}@polito.it Abstract ... What's innovation? by Luigi Bistagnino. La sostenibilità è un diritto (English translation: Sustainability is a right) by Carlo Petrini. ...
This paper describes an experience of synchronous distance education through videoconferencing fo... more This paper describes an experience of synchronous distance education through videoconferencing for pro-viding remote tutoring sessions, made at Politecnico di Torino. The major requirement, a high degree of inter-activity between the teacher and the students, influ- ...
2000 Ieee International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Icme2000 Proceedings Latest Advances in the Fast Changing World of Multimedia, Feb 1, 2000
Page 1. An educational-oriented framework for building on-line courses using XML Florin Bota Laur... more Page 1. An educational-oriented framework for building on-line courses using XML Florin Bota Laura Farinetti Anca Rarau European Studies Dip. Automatica e Informatica Computer Science Department University of Cluj-Napoca Politecnico di Torino Technical Univ. ...
Webnet, 2000
The paper describes an educational application, oriented to university students, to help them to ... more The paper describes an educational application, oriented to university students, to help them to learn the SQL language in the ambit of a course on database systems and applications. This tool is integrated with a XML-based framework for courseware authoring, whose main characteristic is flexibility, since contents are presented to the students in different ways, depending on their previous knowledge,
ABSTRACT Tliis chapter presents an online knowledge evaluation system that allows students to tak... more ABSTRACT Tliis chapter presents an online knowledge evaluation system that allows students to take exams on the Internet, implemented and used, at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, An evolution of the system is used in an XML dynamic courseware framework for student self-evaluation. The system is based on a modular design, permitting future expansion.
Tesi di Laurea Funzionalità avanzate di visualizzazione tridimensionale di ontologie Relatori: pr... more Tesi di Laurea Funzionalità avanzate di visualizzazione tridimensionale di ontologie Relatori: prof. Fulvio Corno ing. Laura Farinetti Candidato: Massimo Piccinno settembre 2005
Information and communication technologies can have a key role in helping people with special edu... more Information and communication technologies can have a key role in helping people with special educational needs, considering both physical and cognitive disabilities. The paper describes an input device, based on eye tracking techniques, that allows people with severe motor disabilities to use gaze for selecting specific areas on a computer screen. Compared to other existing solutions, the strong points of
Abstract Given the increasing amount of Internet accessible information, the role of search engi... more Abstract Given the increasing amount of Internet accessible information, the role of search engines is getting higher, but classical query string-based interfaces are inadequate for inexperienced users, who can't express relevant keywords. The paper proposes a transparent search ...
Iswc, Oct 4, 2003
The effective implementation of the Semantic Web vision is highly dependent upon the widespread a... more The effective implementation of the Semantic Web vision is highly dependent upon the widespread availability of large collections of semantically rich resources which are trustworthy and meaningful. Since semantic classification is dependent upon complex ontologies, a recognised difficulty is the steep learning curve presented to human classifiers when attempting to utilise such ontologies. One important method to foster an increase in web accessible, semantically tagged resources is to make available tools which allow users to explore and understand relevant ontologies and to present relevant categories with which to tag new data. In this paper we investigate how an important and powerful data mining technique, Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), might help in the design and implementation of tools that guide users in semantic tagging tasks. We applied LSI to a large portion of the Open Directory Project (ODP) catalogue, one of the largest repositories of semantically tagged resources available today. We computed statistical information concerning category relationships in the ODP data set, and we incorporated structural information by modifying the construction process of the LSI space. Using this basis, we conducted a comparative experiment where a machine generated classification of new documents was evaluated against a classification created by a group of human users. This paper includes an evaluation and discussion of the experimental results.
Abstract: The paper describes the use of XML for creating an application oriented to the design a... more Abstract: The paper describes the use of XML for creating an application oriented to the design and the implementation of Internet courses, that is an authoring tool whose main characteristic is the capability of producing on-line courses with a structure and an ...
Abstract: The paper describes an educational application, oriented to university students, to hel... more Abstract: The paper describes an educational application, oriented to university students, to help them to learn the SQL language in the ambit of a course on database systems and applications. This tool is integrated with a XML-based framework for courseware authoring ...
2015 IEEE 39th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2015
Incorporating Advancements, 2012
— The Social Web is quickly becoming a way of life: millions of people, everywhere, use social ne... more — The Social Web is quickly becoming a way of life: millions of people, everywhere, use social network sites to stay connected with their friends, discover new people and activities, and share user-created contents. Moreover, today the Social Web phenomenon experiments an astoundingly rapid growth that is not likely to slow down in the near future. At the same time, the borderline between social networks and social media is more and more blurred. This complex and evolving scenario requires a new generation of computer scientists and engineers that understand how to properly design software for supporting and fostering social interactions. This paper describes a university-level experience started four academic years ago with a Social Web course. The course uses a multidisciplinary and active learning approach by requesting the students to design and prototype a Social Web application, and the teachers provide an active support and follow-up along the semester. The course main objective is to provide the students with the fundamentals for understanding both the social and the technical challenges of Social Web applications, balancing the general principles with the specific requirements of personalized contemporary social environments. The paper presents the adopted teaching strategies and analyzes the attained learning outcomes, both from the qualitative and quantitative point of views.