Authors:
Takao Kawamura
1
;
Kazuo Kuramochi
1
;
Junya Kishida
2
;
Shinichi Motomura
2
and
Kazunori Sugahara
1
Affiliations:
1
Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University, Japan
;
2
Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University, Japan
Keyword(s):
Distributed System, P2P, Mobile Agent, Web-based training, e-Learning.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Distributed and Parallel Applications
;
Internet Technology
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
In this paper, the user and application interface of our previously proposed e-Learning system is presented to demonstrate how user interfaces for distributed systems should be composed. The proposed e-Learning system has two distinguishing features. Firstly, it is based on P2P architecture for scalability and robustness. Secondly, all exercises in the system are not only data but also agents so that they have functions, such as scoring user’s answers, telling the correct answers, and showing some related information without human instruction. The interface provides three kinds of communication: communication between a user and an exercise agent, communication between an exercise agent and support applications, and communication between a user and other users. The interface consists of two parts: an interface agent and a plugin for Firefox web browser. An interface agent hides the existence of the P2P network and other agents from the Firefox plugin and users. The developed e-Learnin
g system including the interface is examined by experiments in classroom.
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