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It is sometimes a challenge to access to specific skills assessments and training programs for children with special needs. In the case of visual perception, and more specifically eye-motor coordination, methods like the Frostig one are not adapted to all children. In this paper, we present a two steps co-design process with therapists and children in order to come up with an alternative solution...
Teaching English to children who do not come from an English speaking background is an interesting challenge for educators. In this paper, we present an Augmented reality (AR) tool, TeachAR, for teaching basic English words (colors, shapes, and prepositions) to children for whom English is not a native language. In a pilot study we compare our AR system to a traditional non-AR system. The results...
Constructionism suggests that people learn particularly well when they are creating personally meaningful artifacts for an audience. Design-oriented construction kits can provide affordances for creative, open-ended exploration and creation, but their use can be difficult to incorporate in a classroom setting where many learners are working at different rates or may find certain aspects of the activities...
This paper presents an investigation of children's and adults' preferences on Web pages in order to reveal special preferences of children. For this aim, we conducted an experiment that asked 34 children and 21 adults to score Web pages (whether the pages are preferable for them or not), and we analyzed the scores of the pages from three aspects, calculating statistics of the pages' scores, classifying...
Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common brain tumor in children. Recent studies have demonstrated a relationship between specific signaling pathway abnormalities, a tendency to more favorable outcomes, and a histopathological feature: nodular growth patterns. In this work we present a new segmentation scheme which requires minimal user interaction to segment nodules on MB histopathological sections...
During a disaster, children may be quickly wrenched from their families. Research shows that children in such circumstances are often unable or unwilling to give their names or other identifying information. Currently in the US, there is no existing system in the public health infrastructure that effectively expedites reunification when children can't be identified. Working with the Children's Hospital...
How is it possible for an autonomous agent to learn and retrieve hierarchically organized information? The question is particularly interesting if there is not a simple, tree-like hierarchy, but when low-level items may belong to several superordinate elements. In this article we propose a solution for this problem following the ideas of O'Connor et al., which are guided by the observation that children...
It is an accepted fact that children are easy to impress but hard to content. Unlike adults, children have such a dynamic like and dislike patterns. Even though it is not clear why children cannot cling to one idea for a longer period of time it is obvious that their curiosity tempts to experience a bit of everything. While competing with the dynamic nature of child's mind this research extends the...
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