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Nowadays, circa 10% of 7-11 olds turn out to be poor comprehenders: they demonstrate text comprehension difficulties, related to inference making, despite proficiency in low-level cognitive skills like word reading. To improve the reading comprehension of these children, TERENCE, a technology enhanced learning project, aims at stimulating inference-making about stories. In order to design and develop the TERENCE system, we use a user centred design approach that requires an in depth study of the system’s main end-users, namely, its learners and educators. This paper reports the user classes building process for learners by means of user-centred design field studies.
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Di Mascio, T., Gennari, R., Melonio, A., Vittorini, P. (2012). The User Classes Building Process in a TEL Project. In: Vittorini, P., Gennari, R., Marenzi, I., de la Prieta, F., Rodríguez, J. (eds) International Workshop on Evidence-Based Technology Enhanced Learning. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 152. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28801-2_13
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