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Journal Overview

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Editorial

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Editorial

Jürgen Ziegler

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Research Articles

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Technical Aspects of Automated Item Generation for Blended Learning Environments in Biology

An Analysis of Two Case Studies from the Fields of Botany and Genetics

Justin Timm, Benjamin Otto, Thilo Schramm, Michael Striewe, Philipp Schmiemann, Michael Goedicke

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Using two case studies from biology, the article demonstrates and analyses how domain-specific self-learning items with variable content can be generated automatically for a blended learning environment. It shows that automated item generation works well even for highly specific technical properties and that a good item quality can be produced. Evaluations are based on sample exercises from two courses in botany and genetics, each with more than 100 participants.

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Game-Based Promotion of Motivation and Attention for Socio-Emotional Training in Autism

Exploring the Secrets of Facial Expressions by Combining Minecraft and a Mobile App

Sven Strickroth, Dietmar Zoerner, Tobias Moebert, Anna Morgiel, Ulrike Lucke

Page range: 17-30

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Caused by a deviance of their reward system, autistic people show attention deficits for learning content outside their special fields of interest. This can lead to significant problems, especially in formal learning situations. A promising approach to increase attention is the use of game-based learning concepts. The effect of individual playful aspects could be shown in existing learning systems. However, these do not provide consistent game experiences, which may result in a decreasing motivation for training. Therefore, this paper presents requirements as well as a related game concept to integrate the learning content with a playful narrative in order to promote motivation and attention for socio-emotional training.

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Web Tracking Under the New Data Protection Law: Design Potentials at the Intersection of Jurisprudence and HCI

Timo Jakobi, Gunnar Stevens, Anna-Magdalena Seufert, Max Becker, Max von Grafenstein

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The GDPR regulates at present the handling with personal data fundamentally new and thereby opens new leeway. At the same time, it creates great uncertainty among those affected. One example of this is web tracking: It helps designers to improve the utility and usability of their websites based on, in part, extensive (personal) data collection, or enable operators to finance them. Against this background, in this article we first show the practical relevance of web tracking by collecting the web trackers of the 100 most popular pages of each of the 28 EU member states. Building on this, we show which data these trackers collect and analyze their legal bases. Finally, we discuss possible consequences in design and architecture for fulfilling the legally outlined requirements, taking into account a user’s perspective.

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Categorizing Social Robots with Respect to Dimensions Relevant to Ethical, Social and Legal Implications

Tobias Störzinger, Felix Carros, Anne Wierling, Catrin Misselhorn, Rainer Wieching

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The aim of this paper is to suggest a framework for categorizing social robots with respect to four dimensions relevant to an ethical, legal and social evaluation. We argue that by categorizing them thusly, we can circumvent problematic evaluations of social robots that are often based on overly broad and abstract considerations. Instead of questioning, for example, whether social robots are ethically good or bad in general, we instead propose that different configurations of (and combinations thereof) the suggested dimensions entail different paradigmatic challenges with respect to ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI). We therefore encourage practitioners to consider these paradigmatic challenges when designing social robots to find creative design solutions.

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MCI-Symposium 2019 – KI für den Menschen

Michael Koch

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About this journal

Objective
This journal is devoted to human-computer interaction, media design, usability, engineering and systems evaluation, software ergonomics, cooperative systems, e-learning, mobile and ubiquitous systems, user-adaptive systems, agent development tools and methods for media in different application fields (including e-business, knowledge management, leisure and entertainment, transport, engineering, and medicine), barrier-free systems design, and the social aspects of information and communication technologies.

The journal seeks to build bridges between research and practice as well as between teaching and business, emphasizing interdisciplinary teamwork and application-oriented solutions.

The journal is the official organ of the special interest group on "Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)" in the German Association for Informatics (GI).

i-com is an open access journal since 2023. It publishes English-language articles only. The publication frequency is three times per year.

Topics

Computer science
Psychology
Media design
Marketing/branding
Sociology
Business management
Labor and organizational studies

Article formats
Expert research, review articles, and brief reports

Volume 19 Issue 1

Issue of i-com

Frontmatter

Editorial

Technical Aspects of Automated Item Generation for Blended Learning Environments in Biology

An Analysis of Two Case Studies from the Fields of Botany and Genetics

Abstract

Game-Based Promotion of Motivation and Attention for Socio-Emotional Training in Autism

Exploring the Secrets of Facial Expressions by Combining Minecraft and a Mobile App

Abstract

Web Tracking Under the New Data Protection Law: Design Potentials at the Intersection of Jurisprudence and HCI

Abstract

Categorizing Social Robots with Respect to Dimensions Relevant to Ethical, Social and Legal Implications

Abstract

MCI-Symposium 2019 – KI für den Menschen