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Carolis, Bernardina De and Rossano, Veronica (2009): A team of presentation agents for edutainment. In: Proceedings of ACM IDC09 Interaction Design and Children 2009. pp. 150-153. Available online

“This paper presents the development of a presentation team that shows, explains and provides useful advices to children in the domain of "healthy nutrition". Agents of the team are endowed with different roles and personality traits so as to explain domain concepts from different viewpoints. In order to develop a system independent from the domain and the bodies of the agents, explanations and pieces of advice are generated and not statically scripted. The presentation plan is distributed to the various team actors and it is adapted to the characteristics of the interlocutor. To test the system and to evaluate the efficacy of the team in this domain we used a family of characters already present in the cartoon world: the Smurfies.”

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Bitonto, Pierpaolo Di, Roselli, Teresa and Rossano, Veronica (2009): Formative evaluation of a didactic software for acquiring problem solving abilities using Prolog. In: Proceedings of ACM IDC09 Interaction Design and Children 2009. pp. 154-157. Available online

“Informatics has permeated the educational environments at all levels. In Italian primary schools Informatics teachers present the computer and how it works rather than the programming languages. At present, there is a deep debate about the use of programming languages and, in particular, logic programming in the primary school. On the basis of these premises, the paper presents a didactic software, named KidsPro, addressed to pupils attending fifth-grade of primary school. It aims at improving the user problem solving abilities using Prolog. In order to build an effective and efficient software the User-Centred Design approach was used and the paper presents the results of the formative evaluation performed. The results of this pilot study will be used in the further implementation of the software.”

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Costabile, Maria Francesca, Roselli, Teresa, Lanzilotti, Rosa, Ardito, Carmelo and Rossano, Veronica (2007): A Holistic Approach to the Evaluation of E-Learning Systems. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (ed.) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services, 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007 Held as Part of HCI International 2007 Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007 Proceedings, Part July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 530-538. Available online

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Bitonto, Pierpaolo Di, Plantamura, Vito Leonardo, Roselli, Teresa and Rossano, Veronica (2007): A taxonomy for cataloging LOs using IEEE educational metadata. In: Spector, J. Michael, Sampson, Demetrios G., Okamoto, Toshio, Cerri, Stefano A., Ueno, Maomi and Kashihara, Akihiro (eds.) ICALT 2007 - Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies July 18-20, 2007, Niigata, Japan. pp. 139-141. Available online

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Pragnell, Mary Victoria, Roselli, Teresa and Rossano, Veronica (2006): Can a Hypermedia Cooperative e-Learning Environment Stimulate Constructive Collaboration?. In Educational Technology & Society, 9 (2) pp. 119-132

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Rossano, Veronica, Joy, Mike, Roselli, Teresa and Sutinen, Erkki (2005): Special feature article: A Taxonomy for Definitions and Applications of LOs: A Meta-analysis of ICALT papers. In Educational Technology & Society, 8 (4) pp. 148-160

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Ardito, Carmelo, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Marsico, Marilena De, Lanzilotti, Rosa, Levialdi, Stefano, Plantamura, Paola, Roselli, Teresa, Rossano, Veronica and Tersigni, Manuela (2004): Towards Guidelines for Usability of e-Learning Applications. In: Proceedings of the 8th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All 2004. p. 185. Available online

“One present goal of researchers and developers is to design software tools that make learning materials available online in an educationally effective manner. We face the twofold challenge of implementing advanced e-learning functionalities, though designing their interface so as to provide an easy interaction grasping the students interest. A poorly designed interface makes students spend more time in learning it than in mastering the provided knowledge, so becoming a barrier to effective learning. In this context, both User-Centered Design (UCD) and Learner-Centered Design (LCD) guidelines are needed; it is also important to devise suited evaluation tools, able to help in identifying usability, and, more in general, accessibility flaws. Such tools must be designed bearing in mind the specific characteristics of e-learning applications. Traditional heuristic evaluation appears too general and subjective. In this paper, we propose a set of guidelines and criteria for e-learning platforms (containers) and for educational modules (contents), to be used within the SUE (Systematic Usability Evaluation) inspection. We point out that human factors experts can primarily evaluate syntactic aspects of applications. Experts of education science and domain experts are to be involved for a more comprehensive evaluation.”

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Ardito, Carmelo, Marsico, Maria De, Lanzilotti, Rosa, Levialdi, Stefano, Roselli, Teresa, Rossano, Veronica and Tersigni, Manuela (2004): Usability of E-learning tools. In: Costabile, Maria Francesca (ed.) AVI 2004 - Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces May 25-28, 2004, Gallipoli, Italy. pp. 80-84. Available online

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Plantamura, Paola, Roselli, Teresa and Rossano, Veronica (2004): Can a CSCL Environment Promote Effective Interaction?. In: Looi, Chee-Kit, Sutinen, Erkki, Sampson, Demetrios G., Aedo, Ignacio, Uden, Lorna and Kähkönen, Esko (eds.) ICALT 2004 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 30 August - 1 September, 2004, Joensuu, Finland. .

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Publication count:9
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Veronica Rossano's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

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