USER AND APPLICATION INTERFACE FOR A DISTRIBUTED E-LEARNING SYSTEM

Takao Kawamura, Kazuo Kuramochi, Junya Kishida, Shinichi Motomura, Kazunori Sugahara

2007

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-Learning system including the interface is examined by experiments in classroom.

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Kawamura T., Kuramochi K., Kishida J., Motomura S. and Sugahara K. (2007). USER AND APPLICATION INTERFACE FOR A DISTRIBUTED E-LEARNING SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-77-1, pages 357-363. DOI: 10.5220/0001273303570363


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@conference{webist07,
author={Takao Kawamura and Kazuo Kuramochi and Junya Kishida and Shinichi Motomura and Kazunori Sugahara},
title={USER AND APPLICATION INTERFACE FOR A DISTRIBUTED E-LEARNING SYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2007},
pages={357-363},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001273303570363},
isbn={978-972-8865-77-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - USER AND APPLICATION INTERFACE FOR A DISTRIBUTED E-LEARNING SYSTEM
SN - 978-972-8865-77-1
AU - Kawamura T.
AU - Kuramochi K.
AU - Kishida J.
AU - Motomura S.
AU - Sugahara K.
PY - 2007
SP - 357
EP - 363
DO - 10.5220/0001273303570363