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A Support Method for Programming Education Based on Analysis of Each Learner’s Mental States

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Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology

Part of the book series: Advances in Soft Computing ((AINSC,volume 29))

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This paper describes a support method for programming education in self-learning style and its implementation. It is difficult and important for learners to keep their motivation. In this research, methods for catching the learning data, which cope with four learning steps; reading text, check test, coding and compile, are developed. Psychological agent, which analyzes the learning data and grasps each learner’s state based on ARCS model, is also developed. According to the diagnosis by psychological agent, interface agent gives advice and hints to the learner in visual and auditory way. Implementation of prototype system, an experiment with the prototype and its results are reported. Finally, the efficiency of proposed method and further problems are discussed.

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  1. Graduate School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Aizu, Tsuruga, Ikki, Aizuwakamatsu, 965-8580, Japan

    Masataka Egawa & Zixue Cheng

  2. Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Fukushima University, Kanayagawa 1, Fukushima, 960-1296, Japan

    Shoichi Nakamura

  3. Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Mizumoto 27-1, Muroran, 050-8585, Japan

    Kazuhiko Sato

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Oklahoma State University, North Greenwood Avenue 700, 74106, Tulsa, USA

    Ajith Abraham

  2. Dept. of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Mizumoto-cho 27-1, 050-8585, Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan

    Yasuhiko Dote

  3. Dept. of Computational Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, 464-8601, Nagoya, Aichi-ken, Japan

    Takeshi Furuhashi

  4. Institut für Sicherheits-/Prüftechnik, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Pascalstr. 8-9, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Mario Köppen

  5. Division of Complex Systems Technology Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hokkaido, N-13, W-8 060 KITA-KU, Sapporo, Japan

    Azuma Ohuchi

  6. PRESTO Japan Science & Technology Corp. GSSM, University of Tsukuba, 3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, 12-0012, Tokyo, Japan

    Yukio Ohsawa

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Egawa, M., Nakamura, S., Sato, K., Cheng, Z. (2005). A Support Method for Programming Education Based on Analysis of Each Learner’s Mental States. In: Abraham, A., Dote, Y., Furuhashi, T., Köppen, M., Ohuchi, A., Ohsawa, Y. (eds) Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32391-0_126

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