Product Description: The convergence of computing and telecommunications is leading to different forms of media that could not have existed before digital technology. What is the effect of these changes? How should we approach understanding their significance? This volume explores these issues.

Product Description: Do pictures enhance the communicative power of text? This volume explains how to combine words with pictures, to communicate clearly across the cultural barriers that technology are breaking down.

Product Description: Some of the chapters provide a survey of approaches to developing multimedia software and relevant multilingual issues; design considerations for a visual language and how it might be developed for maximum ease of use. Others look at the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in such systems, focusing on some of the AI techniques as applied to education, and on the building of tutoring systems for second language teaching...read more

Product Description: This volume presents the proceedings of an international workshop held for a multidisciplinary group of researchers involved in intelligent tutoring systems research for language learning. The papers include work on: - Computational bases, tools, and environments for delivering language instruction, - Theoretical frameworks for developing language-based architectures and computational grammars, - Pedagogical practice, learner characteristics, and learner performance data, - Methods for representing tutoring and student modelling knowledge in the tutoring system, - Existing systems for language learning...read more

Product Description: The convergence of interests between advocates of intelligent tutoring systems and those of more exploratory learning environments is being realized in a melding of research programs and implemented systems, exhibited in fact by the chapters collected for this volume.

Product Description: This book is an introduction to the Prolog language for those who have not yet used Prolog and want to find out how it works and also for those considering using it in a specific application. The book assumes no prior knowledge of Prolog and very little knowledge of other computer languages...read more

Product Description: Prometheus is an advanced programming environment for the development of knowledge-based software. It owes its comparative simplicity, consistency and power to the ideas of logic programming. Prometheus, while using logic as the basis of representation language, offers frames to allow for natural representation of structured domains...read more

Product Description: The articles here combine breadth of perspectives with a focus on the field's two major areas of work: learning environments and tutoring systems. The section on learning environments addresses issues of cognitive style, metatheoretic objectives, domain analysis, and a variety of implemented prototype systems: programming by example, Object-orientated Logo and the educational use of constraint based language...read more