Current
Status
At
the current stage, our I-MINDS system is matured in two
fronts: (1) enabling technologies, and (2) intelligent
technologies. Table 1 shows the multimedia and GUI capabilities
of I-MINDS, which constitute its enabling technologies.
Enabling Technologies
Live audio (2-way)
Live video (1-way)
Superimposition of handwriting (MIMIOS) on lecture screen,
superimposition of text on archived lecture pages
Automated archival
Multicast/broadcast
Multicharacter forum and chat room (colors and fonts)
Multicharacter e-whiteboard (colors and fonts, exclusive
tokens)
Annotation and asynchronous review of archived lectures
Rich and flexible control of system features
Table 1. Multimedia and GUI capabilities
that enable I-MINDS
Table 2 shows the agent-based implementations of I-MINDS,
which constitute its intelligent technologies.
Initelligent Technologies
Text parsing and categorization
User profiling
Reinforcement learning on agent reasoning
Group formation and refinement
Real-time automated evaluation of questions
Real-time tracking of user activities
Table 2. Agent-based intelligent designs
of I-MINDS
We
have also conducted actual tests of I-MINDS in the classroom
in Spring 2005 in CSCE 155 (CS1) at the University of
Nebraska. Analysis and results are forthcoming.
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