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The main objective of the ECHOES[1] project is to build a distributed, adaptive, dynamic environment for educating and supporting technicians in the use and maintenance of complex industrial artefacts. To pursue this objective, Web Based Training, Virtual Reality and Multi-Agent Systems are synthesised within the ECHOES environment. Users co-exist within the virtual environment and with time social cohesion emerges yielding a virtual community. User profiling techniques facilitate adaptive courseware presentation.
ECHOES (European Project Number MM1006) is partially funded by the Information Technologies, Telematics Application and Leonardo da Vinci programmes in the framework of Educational Multimedia Task Force.
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O’Hare, G., Sewell, K., Murphy, A., Delahunty, T. (2000). ECHOES: An Immersive Training Experience. In: Brusilovsky, P., Stock, O., Strapparava, C. (eds) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. AH 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1892. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44595-1_17
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