Preliminary Evaluation of an Intelligent Authoring System for 'Graph of Microworlds’

Abstract

Graph of Microworlds (GMW) is a framework for indexing a set of microworlds for computer-supported adaptive and progressive learning with microworlds. It is difficult to describe a GMW because an author must make a set of microworlds and organize them with model-based indices. Therefore, we proposed a method for semi-automating the GMW-authoring and evaluated it by hand simulation. In elementary mechanics, a GMW of practical size could be described with the method and each microworld was judged to be effective as a learning material. Additionally, by 7 subjects, the explanations generated by the method were judged to be useful in describing a GMW.