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Using VRML Technology for Visualization of Relations between the Main Concepts of an Educational Course

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Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies (ICCS 2009)

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This paper proposes to use the VRML technology to save and display visual schemes of Topic Maps representing the structures of educational subjects. As learning purposes always require the careful selection of the most pertinent concepts from the total scientific knowledge, the rendering of Topic Maps for educational scope need not be too large. Special software has been developed to convert the original TM files into corresponding VRML 3D scenes. Processing of several computer science courses has already produced satisfactory images, and work to improve the visualization will continue.

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  1. Perm State Pedagogical University, Sibirskaya, 24, Perm, 614990, Russia

    Evgeny Eremin

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  1. Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Sebastian Rudolph

  2. SAP Research Center CEC Dresden, Chemnitzer Strasse 48, 01187, Dresden, Germany

    Frithjof Dau

  3. Higher School of Economics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Information Science, State University, Kirpichnaya 33/5, 105679, Moscow, Russia

    Sergei O. Kuznetsov

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Eremin, E. (2009). Using VRML Technology for Visualization of Relations between the Main Concepts of an Educational Course. In: Rudolph, S., Dau, F., Kuznetsov, S.O. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies. ICCS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5662. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03079-6_12

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