Computerized Environment for People with Serious Disability

This chapter focuses on one more mental phenomenon – mental imagination that provides simulating the activity of human senses in conditions of interactions with a computerized environment. Constructive using of this phenomenon helps to represent possible situations discloses states of a life cycle of any new task that is important for study described in this book. Moreover, such possibility helps to predict the course of events in design process or in reality. For constructive work with mental imagery, we have developed a complex of means that provides figuratively semantic support of design thinking in work with a new task. A kernel of this complex is a set of interactive visual models of pictured, declarative and conceptually algorithmic types with a system of transformations defined on this set. Transformations help to build necessary (program) forms of visualization for any typical steps of design thinking based on conceptual experimenting.

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Das Klassikerwörterbuch: Begründung und Erläuterung eines digitalen Wörterbuchprojekts zum differenten Wortschatz in der klassischen Literatur

Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik ◽

10.1515/zfgl.2004.32.1.62 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Dominik Brückner ◽

Ulrich Knoop

Keyword(s):

Language Change ◽

German Literature ◽

Classic Period ◽

The Internet ◽

Literary Language ◽

Cd Rom ◽

Computerized Environment

AbstractThis article is a delineation of the „Projekt Klassikerwortschatz“ that collects and processes those words in german literature between ca. 1750 and 1900 which are semantically different in today's german due to language change. It is the aim of the project to publish a dictionary in print, on CD-ROM as well as on the internet that explains these words in order to help to understand the literary language of the german „classic period“. The dictionary will therefore be a beginning of an attempt to fill the gap between Reichmann's FWB, the DWB and the DWDS which curiously coincides with this important period of german literature. The article focuses on the survey phase, when voluntary readers marked those words that made it difficult for them to understand a passage, the digitalization and the processing within the computerized environment. The main focus is on the digital editorial system „Paula“ which has been developped specifically for the „Klassikerwörterbuch“ and enables the lexicographer to focus exclusively on the content of the article rather than its format.

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Clerical Workers and a Computerized Environment

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine ◽

10.1109/mtas.1984.5009893 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 13-16

Author(s):

Lydia Rand

Keyword(s):

Clerical Workers ◽

Computerized Environment

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Scaffolding Problem-Solving and Inquiry

Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-120-9.ch014 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 216-242 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Zvia Fund

Keyword(s):

High School Students ◽

Problem Solving ◽

Junior High School ◽

Cognitive Skills ◽

Theoretical Description ◽

Control Group ◽

Cognitive Support ◽

School Students ◽

Bridge Model ◽

Computerized Environment

The study examines cognitive support for science learning in a computerized environment. The research was carried out with junior high school students, who used a problem-solving computerized environment in science. For this purpose, four support components were identified - structural, reflection, subjectmatter, and enrichment components. These components were used to construct four computerized cognitive support models based on human teaching. The effects of these support models on achievement, on cognitive and meta-cognitive skills, and on reflective behavior are compared to one another and to a control group. The results led to the construction of a theoretical-functional “Bridge Model”. The model elucidates the functions of the structural, reflective and subject-matter components upon the cognitive system, and offers an explanation of the research findings. The study and its main results are presented, as well as a theoretical description of the Bridge Model.

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