Abstract: Bessa Machado and Bredeweg, 2001
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Bessa Machado and Bredeweg, 2001.
Towards Interactive Tools for Constructing Articulate Simulations,
Proceedings of the International workshop on
Qualitative Reasoning, QR'01, pages 98-104.
(PDF)
A smaller version is published in: Artificial Intelligence in Education:
AI-ED in the Wired and Wireless Future. (eds) J.D. Moore,
G. Luckhardt Redfield, and J.L. Johnson,
pages 577-579, 2001, IOS-Press/Ohmsha, Japan, Osaka.
Abstract
Having learners construct computer-based simulations is
becoming increasingly important as an approach to induce
learning. Qualitative simulations incorporate a rich
vocabulary for articulating insights about systems and their
behaviours, including notions such as structural
constituents, identifying qualitatively distinct behaviours,
and making explicit the causal dependencies that govern a
system's behaviour. When building a qualitative model all
these details have to be made explicit (they have to be
represented in the model). As a result, building a qualitative
model induces a deep understanding of the system and its
behaviour. In our research we want to exploit this
phenomenon, i.e. have learners learn by building qualitative
simulations. However, building qualitative models is
generally seen as a difficult task, and no easy-to-use tools
exist to support a learner in performing such a task. In this
paper, we present MOBUM, a domain independent model
building environment aimed at supporting learners in
building qualitative simulations. MOBUM is a fully
implemented prototype in JAVA. The main goal of this
prototype is to generate and clarify ideas with respect to
how such a model building tool should be constructed.
Last modified on June 6th, 2001
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