Design of a Map Annotation System Using a Digital Pen for Field Work

Masatoshi Ishikawa; Keiichi Kaneko

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 2554–2557

Papers are used widely for recording data in field work. However, the data on papers are sometimes messy for field workers to marshal and analyze. Hence, we propose a map annotation system using a digital pen for supporting field workers. By the...

A Supporting System for Geographic Education by using 3D Globe Software

Masatoshi Ishikawa; Youhei Yamazaki; Keiichi Kaneko

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 2783–2791

In geographic education, maps and globes are important tools to convey geographic information, which is spatial, exactly to learners. Globes are not used so frequently in classes since they are more expensive than maps. Hence, in this study, we...

A Graphical User Interface of a Visual Simulator for Computer Literacy and Architecture Education

Yoshiro Imai; Keiichi Kaneko; Masaki Nakagawa

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 7144–7149

A visual computer simulator has been designed and developed to help learners to understand computer literacy and architecture. It is used in real lectures and exercises of computer architecture. Our simulator is written in Java and works as an...

A Learning System for Related Words based on Thesaurus and Image Retrievals

Yasufumi Kowase; Keiichi Kaneko; Masatoshi Ishikawa

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3647–3654

There are many online vocabulary learning systems that utilize corresponding images and sounds. Most of these conventional systems support learners to memorize pairs of words and images. In this study, we have designed and implemented a vocabulary...

Management Policy of Learning Materials' Evaluation in Ubiquitous Vocabulary-learning System

Xin Jin; Masatoshi Ishikawa; Keiichi Kaneko; Haruko Miyakoda; Norihide Shinagawa

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 2820–2824

Our project has been developing a mobile learning system that helps learners in vocabulary acquirement. In the system, learners can set up learning materials by themselves. This paper focuses on a subsystem, SIGMA, to share and exchange learning...

Saurus: A Hyper-dimensional Vocabulary Learning System

Yasufumi Kowase; Yong Xu; Keiichi Kaneko; Masatoshi Ishikawa; Haruko Miyakoda

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 2562–2570

Recently, many vocabulary learning systems based on multimedia have been proposed. Many of them use images and/or sounds related to a word so that learners can acquire the word easily. In this study, we focus on a new dimension, that is, related...

Material Creation for Abstract Words in Vocabulary Learning Environment

Takahiro Kayama; Masatoshi Ishikawa; Keiichi Kaneko; Haruko Miyakoda; Norihide Shinagawa

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 436–442

Vocabulary learning is suitable for mobile learning by which users can utilize free time. There is an environment where learners can participate in activities of learning material creation. The learning materials created by learners are accumulated...

Automatic Creation of Vocabulary Learning Materials from Short Movies

Masatoshi Ishikawa; Kazunori Hasegawa; Satoko Amemiya; Keiichi Kaneko; Haruko Miyakoda; Wataru Tsukahara

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 6044–6051

We have developed a system to produce learning materials conveniently to acquire foreign vocabularies. Being fed a five-second movie for a word, the spelling and the meaning of the word by an instructor, the system automatically generates a learning ...

Supporting Teaching/Learning with Automatically Generated Quiz System

Kousuke Mouri; Noriko Uosaki; Mohammad Nehal Hasnine; Atsushi Shimada; Chengjiu Yin; Keiichi Kaneko; Hiroaki Ogata

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 178–187

This paper describes an automatic quiz generation system to support memory retention utilizing digital textbook logs as well as to reduce teachers' burden to create quizzes. An experimental was conducted to examine whether our automatically...

Topics: Performance and outcome assessment

Creation of Vocabulary Learning Materials by Learners and its Evaluation

Kazunori Hasegawa; Masatoshi Ishikawa; Norihide Shinagawa; Keiichi Kaneko; Haruko Miyakoda; Wataru Tsukahara

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5953–5961

In acquiring a vocabulary, it is said to be effective to increase the time of exposure to the words and to memorize them with association. In our approach where a learner memorizes each word by using a learning material based on a five-second movie, ...

Topics: Evaluation, Educational Technology, Multimedia, Languages, Learning Objects