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Computers, Volume 10, Issue 4

2021 April - 16 articles

Cover Story: Literacy skills are critical for future success, yet an alarming number of students lack proficient reading skills according to standardized assessments. Focus on standardized assessment scores may lead teachers to focus on test preparation rather than the transferable skills that students need to be successful readers. In this article, we describe the StairStepper adaptive literacy game that is part of the Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking (iSTART) intelligent tutoring system. Results of this study indicate that the StairStepper game is a promising solution to fill this gap in instruction by providing a fun and engaging way for students to practice essential literacy skills. Acknowledgement: The authors wish to thank Tong Li for his production of the graphical abstract for this article. View this paper
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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,349 Views
11 Pages

Sparsity Increases Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Ensemble

  • Uyanga Dorjsembe,
  • Ju Hong Lee,
  • Bumghi Choi and
  • Jae Won Song

Deep neural networks have achieved almost human-level results in various tasks and have become popular in the broad artificial intelligence domains. Uncertainty estimation is an on-demand task caused by the black-box point estimation behavior of deep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,203 Views
20 Pages

The financial crisis of the last decade has left many financial institutions with limited personnel and equipment resources. Thus, the IT departments of these institutions are being asked to explore novel approaches to resolve these constraints in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,421 Views
21 Pages

Supporting School Aged Children to Train Their Vision by Using Serious Games

  • Ilona Heldal,
  • Carsten Helgesen,
  • Qasim Ali,
  • Daniel Patel,
  • Atle Birger Geitung and
  • Håvard Pettersen

Several children struggle with vision difficulties caused by problematic coordination between their left and right eye muscles, i.e., oculomotor dysfunction (OMD). Many OMDs can be improved by training the eyes via physical exercises defined and supe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,503 Views
15 Pages

MyDiabetes—The Gamified Application for Diabetes Self-Management and Care

  • Nooralisa Mohd Tuah,
  • Ainnecia Yoag and
  • Fatimah Ahmedy

Gamified applications are regarded as useful for patients in facilitating daily self-care management and the personalization of health monitoring. This paper reports the development of a gamified application by considering a design that had previousl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,438 Views
29 Pages

CAT-CAD: A Computer-Aided Diagnosis Tool for Cataplexy

  • Ilaria Bartolini and
  • Andrea Di Luzio

Narcolepsy with cataplexy is a severe lifelong disorder characterized, among others, by sudden loss of bilateral face muscle tone triggered by emotions (cataplexy). A recent approach for the diagnosis of the disease is based on a completely manual an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,637 Views
11 Pages

A Brief Review on the Sensor Measurement Solutions for the Ten-Meter Walk Test

  • Ivan Miguel Pires,
  • Eurico Lopes,
  • María Vanessa Villasana,
  • Nuno M. Garcia,
  • Eftim Zdravevski and
  • Vasco Ponciano

The wide-spread use of wearables and the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm provide an opportunity to use mobile-device sensors for medical applications. Sensors available in the commonly used devices may inspire innovative solutions f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,073 Views
20 Pages

iSTART StairStepper—Using Comprehension Strategy Training to Game the Test

  • Tracy Arner,
  • Kathryn S. McCarthy and
  • Danielle S. McNamara

Literacy skills are critical for future success, yet over 60% of high school seniors lack proficient reading skills according to standardized tests. The focus on high stakes, standardized test performance may lead educators to “teach-to-the-test” rat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,771 Views
15 Pages

Online Judging Platform Utilizing Dynamic Plagiarism Detection Facilities

  • Fariha Iffath,
  • A. S. M. Kayes,
  • Md. Tahsin Rahman,
  • Jannatul Ferdows,
  • Mohammad Shamsul Arefin and
  • Md. Sabir Hossain

A programming contest generally involves the host presenting a set of logical and mathematical problems to the contestants. The contestants are required to write computer programs that are capable of solving these problems. An online judge system is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,003 Views
14 Pages

Improving Response Time for Crowd Management in Hajj

  • Emad Felemban,
  • Adil A. Sheikh and
  • Atif Naseer

Flying Adhoc Network (FANET) is a particular type of Mobile Adhoc Network (MANET) that consists of flying drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). MANETs are especially useful in rural and remote areas, where the lack of public networks necessitate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,124 Views
14 Pages

Modeling Networked Telemetry

  • Wondimu Zegeye,
  • Richard Dean,
  • Mulugeta Dugda,
  • Farzad Moazzami and
  • Andargachew Bezabih

This paper presents the modeling of the networks supporting today’s telemetry. The incorporation of networking features has significantly enhanced the capability and performance of modern telemetry systems. The development of Integrated Network-Enhan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,122 Views
22 Pages

We characterize the LoRa channel in terms of multi-path fading, loss burstiness, and assess the benefits of Forward Error Correction as well as the influence of frame length. We make these observations by synthesizing extensive experimental measureme...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,416 Views
15 Pages

Serious Games and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Dental Education: An Integrative Review of the Literature

  • Kawin Sipiyaruk,
  • Stylianos Hatzipanagos,
  • Patricia A. Reynolds and
  • Jennifer E. Gallagher

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced faculties including dental schools into a ‘new normal’, where the adoption of remote or distance learning is required to minimise the risk of infection. Synchronous learning historically was favoured due to the percei...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,954 Views
17 Pages

A Systematic Investigation of Models for Color Image Processing in Wound Size Estimation

  • Filipe Ferreira,
  • Ivan Miguel Pires,
  • Mónica Costa,
  • Vasco Ponciano,
  • Nuno M. Garcia,
  • Eftim Zdravevski,
  • Ivan Chorbev and
  • Martin Mihajlov

In recent years, research in tracking and assessing wound severity using computerized image processing has increased. With the emergence of mobile devices, powerful functionalities and processing capabilities have provided multiple non-invasive wound...

  • Erratum
  • Open Access
1,756 Views
1 Page
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
19,121 Views
14 Pages

In the present day, Internet technology and social media totally dominate as a means of communication. The media and social interaction have a two-sided nature, as the important role is not only those of the media messages to the users, but of the us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,855 Views
14 Pages

Estimation of Adaptation Parameters for Dynamic Video Adaptation in Wireless Network Using Experimental Method

  • Gururaj Bijur,
  • Ramakrishna Mundugar,
  • Vinayak Mantoor and
  • Karunakar A Kotegar

A wireless network gives flexibility to the user in terms of mobility that attracts the user to use wireless communication more. The video communication in the wireless network experiences Quality of Services (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) iss...

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