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A Teaching Tool for Parasitology: Enhancing Learning with Annotation and Image Retrieval

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2010)

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Parasitology is a basic course in life sciences curricula, but up to now it has few computer-assisted teaching tools. We present SuperIDR, a tool which supports annotation and search (based on a textual and a visual description) in the biodiversity domain. In addition, it provides a feature to aid comparison of morphological characteristics among different species. Preliminary results with two experiments show that students found the tool to be very useful, contributing to an alternative learning approach.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil

    Nádia P. Kozievitch, Ricardo da Silva Torres & Felipe Andrade

  2. Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA

    Uma Murthy & Edward Fox

  3. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA

    Eric Hallerman

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Glasgow, 17 Lilybank Gardens, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, UK

    Mounia Lalmas  & Joemon Jose  & 

  2. Vienna University of Technology, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Andreas Rauber

  3. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell’Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via G Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Fabrizio Sebastiani

  4. University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, Uk

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Kozievitch, N.P., da Silva Torres, R., Andrade, F., Murthy, U., Fox, E., Hallerman, E. (2010). A Teaching Tool for Parasitology: Enhancing Learning with Annotation and Image Retrieval. In: Lalmas, M., Jose, J., Rauber, A., Sebastiani, F., Frommholz, I. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6273. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_58

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