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CXP-Powered I-MINDS Online Demonstrations |
I-MINDS is a software solution to intelligent management of virtual classrooms or groups, to support real-time and offline activities by facilitating group work, seamlessly tailoring to individual user needs and backgrounds, and assisting group moderation and management.
The following demonstrations detail the powerful tools I-MINDS provides to teachers and students to track and enhance collaborative learning.
I-MINDS'
technology is built upon intelligent software agents that interact on behalf of
the users autonomously. In addition to
collecting data and information on the users. activities and preferences, the
agents also make decisions such as evaluating and ranking questions, supporting
group discussions, match-making compatible group members, and learning useful
heuristics to better support the users.
Specific applications of our technology include distance education
support systems, active learning support systems, and corporate training
support systems. By synchronous
learning, I-MINDS is to provide intelligent support for a teacher in managing a
classroom at real-time (including audio/video, real-time Q&A, real-time
student profiling and ranking), and for a student to participate in group
activities real-time (regardless of where the student is, remote or in-class). By synchronous learning, I-MINDS is to provide automated digital archival, Q&A, and
student support groups outside the classrooms.
But now, after our discussions in terms of marketability, we are looking
at probably .focus group support systems. as outlined above.
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Use
Situations for CXP-Powered I-MINDS
The CXP-Powered I-MINDS system can be used as an off-the-shelf
capability in a CXP venue as well as a research tool. Its design is flexible such that users can
add to the design to collect additional data or information, or create
additional GUI components, or to customize features to more appropriately suit
the needs of the users.
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank our sponsors over the years: