A USER-INTERFACE ENVIRONMENT SOLUTION AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL FOR AN ONLINE CHESS SERVER ON THE WEB

Juliano Picussa, Laura S. García, Juliana Bueno, Márica V. R. Ferreira, Alexandre I. Direne, Luis C. E. de Bona, Fabiano Silva, Marcos A. Castilho, Marcos S. Sunye

2008

Abstract

This article describes an interaction and interface environment for a public online chess server, on the web, as an educational tool. The main purpose of the environment is to improve chess teaching in Brazilian public schools. The vast majority of such chess online servers considerer and take for granted that users are specialists rather than learners. The solution describes in this article is inserted in an education environment, aiming at providing users with direct access to the contextually significant actions by means of strategic and operational help.

References

  1. de Souza, C. (2004). The Semiotic Engineering of HumanComputer Interaction. The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, UK.
  2. Direne, A., Bona, L., Silva, F., dos Santos, G., Guedes, A., Castilho, M., Sunye, M., Hartmann, C., de Andrade Neto, P., de Mello, S., et al. (2004). Conceitos e Ferramentas de Apoio ao Ensino de Xadrez nas Escolas Brasileiras.
  3. Feitosa, A. and Direne, A. (2006). Definica˜o Formal de Táticas de Xadrez por Meio da Autoria Incremental de Conceitos Heurísticos. Master's thesis, Departamento de Informática, UFPR.
  4. Grudin, J. (1994). Groupware and Social Dynamics: Eight Challenges for Developers. Communications of the ACM, 37(1):92-105.
  5. Huizinga, J. (1971). Homo Ludens: O Jogo Como Elemento da Cultura. Editora da Universidade de S. Paulo, Editora Perspectiva.
  6. Kishimoto, T. (1992). O jogo, a Crianc¸a e a Educac¸ a˜o. PhD thesis, Universidade de Sa˜o Paulo (USP), Sa˜o Paulo, Brazil.
  7. Sá, A. (1988). O Xadrez e a Educac¸a˜o: Experieˆncias nas Escolas Primárias e Secundárias da Franc¸a. Rio de Janeiro.
  8. Tarouco, L., Roland, L., Fabre, M., and Konrath, M. (2004). Jogos Educacionais. Revista Novas Tecnologias na Educac¸ a˜o, 2(1).
  9. Vicari, R. and Giraffa, L. (1996). Intelligent tutoring systems: Functional approach x agents approach (abstract). In SBIA 7896: Proceedings of the 13th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, page 235, London, UK. Springer-Verlag.
Download


Paper Citation


in Harvard Style

Picussa J., S. García L., Bueno J., V. R. Ferreira M., I. Direne A., C. E. de Bona L., Silva F., A. Castilho M. and S. Sunye M. (2008). A USER-INTERFACE ENVIRONMENT SOLUTION AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL FOR AN ONLINE CHESS SERVER ON THE WEB . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-40-1, pages 262-267. DOI: 10.5220/0001707602620267


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Juliano Picussa and Laura S. García and Juliana Bueno and Márica V. R. Ferreira and Alexandre I. Direne and Luis C. E. de Bona and Fabiano Silva and Marcos A. Castilho and Marcos S. Sunye},
title={A USER-INTERFACE ENVIRONMENT SOLUTION AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL FOR AN ONLINE CHESS SERVER ON THE WEB},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={262-267},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001707602620267},
isbn={978-989-8111-40-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - A USER-INTERFACE ENVIRONMENT SOLUTION AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL FOR AN ONLINE CHESS SERVER ON THE WEB
SN - 978-989-8111-40-1
AU - Picussa J.
AU - S. García L.
AU - Bueno J.
AU - V. R. Ferreira M.
AU - I. Direne A.
AU - C. E. de Bona L.
AU - Silva F.
AU - A. Castilho M.
AU - S. Sunye M.
PY - 2008
SP - 262
EP - 267
DO - 10.5220/0001707602620267