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The 1st Release of the TERENCE Learner GUI: The User-Based Usability Evaluation

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This paper reports the user-based usability evaluations performed in Italy of the first release of the learner Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the TERENCE project. This project aims at developing an adaptive learning system for training the reasoning about stories’ events of the TERENCE learners in Italy and in UK. Learners are 7-11 year old children, hearing and deaf, that have difficulties in correlating the events of a story, making inferences about them, and detecting inconsistencies. The evaluation of the first release of the TERENCE adaptive learning system software prototypes tackles their usability in order to quickly reveal possible usability problems, as well as to address the TERENCE team to solve them, before the large scale evaluation. Moreover, authors try to carried out important general issues related to the experiment performance.

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  1. Dep. of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, 67100, L’Aquila, Italy

    Maria Rosita Cecilia

  2. Dep. of Engineering, Information Science and Mathematics, University of L’Aquila, 67100, L’Aquila, Italy

    Tania Di Mascio

  3. CS Faculty, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, P.zza Domenicani 3, 39100, Bolzano, Italy

    Alessandra Melonio

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  1. , Department of Internal Medicine, University of L'Aquila, Viale S. Salvatore - Edificio Delta, L'Aquila fraz. Coppito, 67100, Italy

    Pierpaolo Vittorini

  2. , Computer Science Faculty, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Domenicani 3, Bolzano, 39100, Italy

    Rosella Gennari

  3. , L3S Research Center, Leibniz University of Hannover, Appelstraße 4, Hannover, 30167, Germany

    Ivana Marenzi

  4. , Department of Electric and, University of L’Aquila, Monteluco di Roio, L’Aquila, 67040, Italy

    Tania Di Mascio

  5. , Departamento Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Fernando De la Prieta

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Cecilia, M.R., Di Mascio, T., Melonio, A. (2013). The 1st Release of the TERENCE Learner GUI: The User-Based Usability Evaluation. In: Vittorini, P., Gennari, R., Marenzi, I., Mascio, T., Prieta, F. (eds) 2nd International Workshop on Evidence-based Technology Enhanced Learning. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 218. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00554-6_1

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