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Computer Assisted Self-Teaching alias CAST

Principle

Use the computer to do meta-analysis on your current task to provide suggestions for improvement based on community good pratices.

Process

1. formalized the current situation as a sequence of behavior (actions) over time
2. establish the next possible behavior thanks to a stochastic functions that return predictions
3. detect a pattern with a greater probability than a minimum threshold
   1. propose a suggestion
      1. accepted/rewarded : lower the threshold
      2. ignored/refused : higher the threshold
      3. explain the choice now or later on
      4. refine the content of the suggestion itself now or later on

Community-based databases of formalized

• Patterns to detect
• Good practices
• Suggestions

Personal equivalents that stay private

• Patterns to detect
• Good practices
• Suggestions
• Thresholds levels
• Top sequences of behavior

Where it could be used

• Oimp.TheHealthVoyage
• Seedea.VirtualAssistant
• Utopiahanalysis.Pim
• SandIdeabox : wiki as a learning tool

Suggestion

• Explain the behavior of the assistant in order to make it deterministic for the user in order to lower the cognitive load.
  • "Normal human inertia makes it difficult to effect sweeping changes, even when the need for them is clear." [1]
• Avoid task interruption even if it is for a good suggestion, the user goal IS to realize a complex task 1st!
  • possibility to queue

References

1. Summary of The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin

Inspiration

• Joseph Jacotot and his method explained in Le maître ignorant : Cinq leçons sur l'émancipation intellectuelle by Jacques Rancière
• Think faster focus better and remember more - Rewiring our brain to stay younger... by Michael Merzenich
• TypingMaster Satellite recommendations for breaks
• Wiki as a learning tool

Potential funding

• The Creative Synthesis Collaborative, a nonprofit research and education institution.

To integrate

• Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is the science of applying experimentally derived principles of behavior to improve socially significant behavior.
• Self-teaching tool (example with embedding pmwiki with http://websitevideohelp.net/Main/HomePage )
• stats should be "per person" if ones want to emulate synaptic plasticity
• Information Seeking, Visualization, and Decision-Making by John Yen
• Les neurones de la lecture with Stanislas Dehaene, Académie des sciences, 2008
  • especially during the last 5minutes dedicated to software and work from Johannes Ziegler at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (LPC)
• Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning, Learning Technologies Center, University of Manitoba, March 2009
• epistemic games from The Epistemic Games Research Group, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• The Learning Companion: an Embodied Conversational Agent for Learning, Web Science Overlay Journal, Proceedings of the WebSci'09: Society On-Line, 18-20 March 2009, Athens, Greece
  • Publications from the Companions Project (European program, 6th framework, research from 2005 to 2008)
• Technology enhanced learning: The good, the bad, and the ugly by I. E. Dror, Pragmatics & Cognition, 16 (2), 215-223, 2008
• Comparative Information Technology Languages, Societies and the Internet in Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research Vol. 4, Springer 2009
• The Primer, a special "book" described in The Diamond Age
  • see also personal notes on the story