Research Activity Support System Based on the Reuse of Seminar Contents
Abstract
Discussions in seminars in a university play an important role in a research activity, because a presenter can obtain suggestions from the discussions about pending problems. The purpose of this study is to realize a system for creating and reusing seminar contents that include presentation materials, text minutes, visual and audio data, and metadata due to facilitation of discussions in seminars. We think it is important to make a presentation based on previous discussions because participants can understand the content of the current presentation more efficiently and can contribute to more active discussions. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a system, called DRIP system, to support a research activity using the accumulated seminar contents and the information related to the seminar contents. The result of evaluation shows that DRIP system enables us to make more understandable presentations based on previous discussions and to perform more meaningful discussions.
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2 Introduction
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Fugure1: Research activity cycle.
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Fugure2: Architecture of the DRIP system.
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Fugure3: Discussion room.
Fugure4: Seminar contents.
Fugure5: Tagging device.
Fugure6: Secretary interface.
Fugure7: Discussion browser.
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Fugure8: Reflection interface on the DRIP system.
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Fugure9: Note editor on the DRIP system.
Fugure10: Relationships between contents on the DRIP system.
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Fugure11: Presentation editor on the DRIP system.
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Fugure12: Time for each discussion in the experiment.
Fugure13: Number of statements in the experiment.
Fugure14: Comparing of evaluation about presentations.
Fugure15: Number of marked statements.
Fugure16: Frequency of browsing of seminar contents using the discussion browser.
Fugure17: Presence of markings of presenter B for statements grouped into (2) or (3).
Fugure18: Relationships between contents recorded by the DRIP system.
Fugure19: Connection between notes and the following seminar.