[Air-L] Contents of Vol. 11, No. 2 of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET, an EI journal)

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http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-distance-education-technologies/1078

We are glad to announce the publication of Vol. 11, No. 2 of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET, an EI
journal). In this issue, SIX papers are included:

Recognizing Student Emotions using Brainwaves and Mouse Behavior Data(pages 1-15)
Judith Azcarraga, and Merlin Teodosia Suarez
Brainwaves (EEG signals) and mouse behavior information are shown to be useful in predicting academic emotions, such as confidence,
excitement, frustration and interest. Twenty five college students were asked to use the Aplusix math learning software while their
brainwaves signals and mouse behavior (number of clicks, duration of each click, distance traveled by the mouse) were automatically
being captured. It is shown that by combining the extracted features from EEG signals with data representing mouse click behavior,
the accuracy in predicting academic emotions substantially increases compared to using only features extracted from EEG signals or
just mouse behavior alone. Furthermore, experiments were conducted to assess the prediction accuracy of the system at points during
the learning session where several of the extracted features significantly deviate in value from their mean. The experiments confirm
that the prediction performance increases as the number of feature values that deviate significantly from the mean increases.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/recognizing-student-emotions-using-brainwaves/77838

Towards Computational Fronesis: Verifying Contextual Appropriateness of Emotions (pages 16-47)
Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Michal Mazur, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, and Yoshio Momouchi
This paper presents research in Contextual Affect Analysis (CAA) for the need of future application in intelligent agents, such as
conversational agents or artificial tutors. The authors propose a new term, Computational Fronesis (CF), to embrace the tasks
included in CAA applied to development of conversational agents such as artificial tutors. In tutor-student discourse it is crucial
that the artificial tutor was able not only to detect user/student emotions, but also to verify toward whom they were directed and
whether they were appropriate for the context of the conversation. Therefore, as the first task in CF the authors focus on
verification of contextual appropriateness of emotions. They performed some of the first experiments in this task for the Japanese
language and discuss future directions in development and implications of Computational Fronesis.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/towards-computational-fronesis/77839

Towards a Semantic-Based Approach for Affect and Metaphor Detection (pages 48-65)
Li Zhang, and John Barnden
Affect detection from open-ended virtual improvisational contexts is a challenging task. To achieve this research goal, the authors
developed an intelligent agent which was able to engage in virtual improvisation and perform sentence-level affect detection from
user inputs. This affect detection development was efficient for the improvisational inputs with strong emotional indicators.
However, it can also be fooled by the diversity of emotional expressions such as expressions with weak or no affect indicators or
metaphorical affective inputs. Moreover, since the improvisation often involves multi-party conversations with several threads of
discussions happening simultaneously, the previous development was unable to identify the different discussion contexts and the most
intended audiences to inform affect detection. Therefore, in this paper, the authors employ latent semantic analysis to find the
underlying semantic structures of the emotional expressions and identify topic themes and target audiences especially for those
inputs without strong affect indicators to improve affect detection performance. They also discuss how such semantic interpretation
of dialog contexts is used to identify metaphorical phenomena. Initial exploration on affect detection from gestures is also
discussed to interpret users’ experience of using the system and provide an extra channel to detect affect embedded in the virtual
improvisation. Their work contributes to the journal themes on affect sensing from text, semantic-based dialogue processing and
emotional gesture recognition.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/towards-semantic-based-approach-affect/77840

Using Emotional Intelligence in Training Crisis Managers: The Pandora Approach(pages 66-95)
Lachlan Mackinnon, Liz Bacon, Gabriella Cortellessa, and Amedeo Cesta
Multi-agency crisis management represents one of the most complex of real-world situations, requiring rapid negotiation and
decision-making under extreme pressure. However, the training offered to strategic planners, called Gold Commanders, does not place
them under any such pressure. It takes the form of paper-based, table-top exercises, or expensive, real-world, limited-scope
simulations. The Pandora project has developed a rich multimedia training environment for Gold Commanders, based on a crisis
scenario, timeline-based, event network, with which the trainees and their trainer interact dynamically. Pandora uses the emotional
intelligence of the trainees, through a behavioural modelling component, to support group dynamic and decision-making. It applies
systemic emotional intelligence, based on inferred user state and rule-based affective inputs, to impact the stress levels of the
trainees. Pandora can impose variable stress on trainees, to impact their decision-making, and model their behaviour and performance
under stress, potentially resulting in more effective and realisable strategies.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/using-emotional-intelligence-training-crisis/77841

Affective Realism of Animated Films in the Development of Simulation-Based Tutoring Systems (pages 96-109)
Hiran B. Ekanayake, Uno Fors, Robert Ramberg, Tom Ziemke, Per Backlund, and Kamalanath P. Hewagamage
This paper presents a study focused on comparing real actors based scenarios and animated characters based scenarios with respect to
their similarity in evoking psychophysiological activity for certain events by measuring galvanic skin response (GSR). In the
experiment, one group (n=11) watched the real actors’ film whereas another group (n=7) watched the animated film, which had the
same story and dialogue as the real actors’ film. The results have shown that there is no significant difference in the skin
conductance response (SCR) scores between the two groups; however, responses significantly differ when SCR amplitudes are taken into
account. Moreover, Pearson’s correlation reported as high as over 80% correlation between the two groups’ SCRs for certain time
intervals. The authors believe that this finding is of general importance for the domain of simulation-based tutoring systems in
development of and decisions regarding use of animated characters based scenarios.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/affective-realism-animated-films-development/77842

Words that Fascinate the Listener: Predicting Affective Ratings of On-Line Lectures(pages 110-123)
Felix Weninger, Pascal Staudt, and Bjorn Schuller
In a large scale study on 843 transcripts of Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) talks, the authors address the relation
between word usage and categorical affective ratings of lectures by a large group of internet users. Users rated the lectures by
assigning one or more predefined tags which relate to the affective state evoked in the audience (e. g., ‘fascinating’, ‘funny’,
‘courageous’, ‘unconvincing’ or ‘long-winded’). By automatic classification experiments, they demonstrate the usefulness of
linguistic features for predicting these subjective ratings. Extensive test runs are conducted to assess the influence of the
classifier and feature selection, and individual linguistic features are evaluated with respect to their discriminative power. In
the result, classification whether the frequency of a given tag is higher than on average can be performed most robustly for tags
associated with positive valence, reaching up to 80.7% accuracy on unseen test data.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/words-fascinate-listener/77843

------- General Call for Papers for IJDET (an EI journal)-----------
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http://maiga.athabascau.ca/editors/IJDET-Call_for_Papers-General.pdf

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET)
(http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-distance-education-technologies/1078)

The International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET) is
a forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate practical solutions
to the automation of open and distance learning. Targeted to academic
researchers and engineers who work with distance learning programs and
software systems, as well as general users of distance education technologies
and methods, IJDET discusses computational methods, algorithms,
implemented prototype systems, and applications of open and distance learning.
All manuscripts submitted to the journal are peer-reviewed according to
the procedure consisting of initial review, peer review, and recommendation

Editor in Chief:
Dr. Fuhua Lin (fuhua.o.lin at gmail.com)

Executive Editor:
Dr. Maiga Chang (maiga.chang at gmail.com)

Indices:
Compendex (Elsevier EI), DBLP, EBSCOhost, ERIC, Google Scholar,
INSPEC, PsycINFOR, SCOPUS, and many others

Suggested topics:
IJDET is an EI journal and the scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to:
- Assessment
- Distance Learning for Culture and Arts
- Intelligent and Adaptive Learning
- Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
- Mobile Learning
- Nurse Medical Healthcare
- Pedagogical Issues
- Social Learning
- Serious Games for Distance Education
- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education
- Technology Enhanced Learning
- Ubiquitous Learning
- Virtual Worlds for Distance Education

Manuscript guidelines:
All submissions have to follow IJDET manuscript guidelines at
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/resources/journal-organization-and-formatting.pdf
http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx
should be submitted online at http://www.ijdet.com/ after registering an account.

Special Issue proposals:
We also encourage potential research in any fields related to the journal
to form a high quality guest editorial team to submit special issue proposal
online, for any emerging, important, and hot topics. Please submit your
special issue proposal online as a manuscript and choose
"[Special Issue Proposal]" as its Section

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For queries, please contact Dr. Maiga Chang (maiga.chang at gmail.com)
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Associate Editor, International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design

Learning Culture and Language through ICTs: Methods for Enhanced Instruction
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Special Issue on Practical Applications of Mobile and Internet Educational Games
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Guest Editor, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (SSCI)
Special Issue on Technology Enhanced Information Retrieval and Processing for Online Learning (Vol. 13, No. 5)
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/issue/view/54

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Special Issue on Cloud Computing Technology and Applications (Vol. 7, No. 2)
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