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Database Theory for Users Unexpert: A Strategy for Learning Computer Science and Information Technology

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Advances in New Technologies, Interactive Interfaces, and Communicability (ADNTIIC 2010)

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A set of strategies is presented for computer teaching between adult and inexpert users in the handling of computers, using the notions of databases, systems engineering and computing. The steps taken to reach optimal results in a short time are reached and with reduced costs. These strategies and stratagems are the result of a long teaching process in the professional training courses of the Social European Fund on the Mediterranean basin. Simultaneously a series of practical examples or study cases used in the generation of these strategies are shown.

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  1. HCI Lab. – F&F Multimedia Communic@tions Corp., ALAIPO: Asociación Latina de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Via Pascoli, S. 15 – CP 7, 24121, Bergamo, Italy

    Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra

  2. HCI Lab. – F&F Multimedia Communic@tions Corp., AINCI: Asociación Internacional de la Comunicación Interactiva, Via Pascoli, S. 15 – CP 7, 24121, Bergamo, Italy

    Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra

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  1. HCI Lab., Via Pascoli, S.15, CP 7, 24121, Bergamo, Italy

    Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra

  2. EATCO Research Group, University of Cordoba, Campus de Rabanales, 14071, Cordoba, Spain

    Carlos de Castro Lozano

  3. Department of Drawing, Desing and Aesthetic, Fine Arts College, University of La Laguna, Camino del Hierro, 4, 38009, La Laguna, Spain

    Mauricio Pérez Jiménez

  4. Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond st, G1 1XH, Glasgow, UK

    Emma Nicol

  5. Interactive Media Division, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, 900 West 34 Street, SCA 201, 90089-2211, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Andreas Kratky

  6. HCI Lab., Via Pascoli, S. 15, CP 7, 24121, Bergamo, Italy

    Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra

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Cipolla Ficarra, F.V. (2011). Database Theory for Users Unexpert: A Strategy for Learning Computer Science and Information Technology. In: Cipolla Ficarra, F.V., de Castro Lozano, C., Pérez Jiménez, M., Nicol, E., Kratky, A., Cipolla-Ficarra, M. (eds) Advances in New Technologies, Interactive Interfaces, and Communicability. ADNTIIC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6616. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20810-2_9

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