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Jenine Y Stone - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a novel pen based bluetooth enabled insulin delivery system with insulin dose tracking and advice
Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, 2017Co-Authors: Timothy S Bailey, Jenine Y StoneAbstract:ABSTRACTIntroduction: Diabetes is growing in prevalence internationally. As more individuals require insulin as part of their treatment, technology evolves to optimize delivery, improve adherence, and reduce dosing errors. Insulin pens outperform vial and syringe in simplicity, dosing accuracy, and user preference. Bolus advisors improve dosing confidence and treatment adherence. The InPen System offers a novel approach to treatment via a wireless pen that syncs to a mobile application featuring a bolus advisor, enabling convenient insulin dose tracking and more accurate bolus advice among other features.Areas covered: Existing technology for insulin delivery and bolus advice are reviewed. The mechanics and functionality of the InPen device are delineated. Findings from Formative Testing and usability studies of the InPen system are reported. Future directions for the InPen system in the treatment of diabetes are discussed.Expert opinion: Diabetes management is complex and largely data-driven. The InPen S...
Amanda Armstrong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Measurement in Learning Games Evolution: Review of Methodologies Used in Determining Effectiveness of Math Snacks Games and Animations
Technology Knowledge and Learning, 2016Co-Authors: Karen Trujillo, Barbara Chamberlin, Karin Wiburg, Amanda ArmstrongAbstract:This article captures the evolution of research goals and methodologies used to assess the effectiveness and impact of a set of mathematical educational games and animations for middle-school aged students. The researchers initially proposed using a mixed model research design of Formative and summative measures, such as user-Testing, observations, interviews, and standardized test scores. Over the course of the 5 years, researchers expanded on these qualitative and quantitative methods by adding additional research methods based on additional potential opportunities for Formative Testing, additional potentials areas of impact, and refining research methodologies. Based on the findings from these methods, the researchers offer recommendations for approaches to evaluating educational game design and animation that support student learning. The authors review the methodologies used (observations, focus groups and panel discussions, pre- and post-tests, self-report surveys and embedded data); environments in which the methods were used (Learning Games Lab Think Tanks, classrooms, summer camps, annual advisory reviews); and three studies (one pilot and two final studies). The researchers close with recommendations for design and evaluation strategies of game- and animation-based learning.
Clayton Barham - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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AI in Informal Science Education: Bringing Turing Back to Life to Perform the Turing Test
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2017Co-Authors: Avelino J. Gonzalez, James R. Hollister, Ronald F. Demara, Jason Leigh, Brandan Lanman, Shane Parker, Christopher Walls, Jeanne Parker, Josiah Wong, Clayton BarhamAbstract:This paper describes an interactive museum exhibit featuring an avatar of Alan Turing that informs museum visitors about artificial intelligence and Turing’s seminal Turing Test for machine intelligence. The objective of the exhibit is to engage and motivate visiting children in the hope of sparking an interest in them about computer science and artificial intelligence, and cause them to consider pursuing future studies and/or careers in these fields. The exhibit interacts with the visitors, allowing them to participate in a simplified version of Turing’s test that is brief and informal to suit the limitations of a five-minute exhibit. In this exhibit, the visitor (targeted towards middle school age children) invokes an avatar of his/her own choice, and acts to endow it with human-like qualities (voice, brain, eyesight and hearing). Then, the visitor engages the avatar in a (brief) question-and-answer session to determine whether the visitor thinks that he/she is interacting with a real human on a video conference or with an avatar. We consider this interaction to be an extension of the original Turing Test because, unlike Turing’s original that used text via a teletype, this version features a graphical embodiment of an agent with which one can converse in spoken natural language. This extension serves to make passing the Turing Test more difficult, as now the avatar must not only communicate like a human, but also look, sound and act the part. It also makes the exhibit visual, dynamic and interesting to the visitors. Evaluations were performed with museum visitors, both in backrooms with prototypes as well as on the museum floor with the final version. The Formative and summative evaluations performed indicated overall success in engaging the museum visitors and increasing their interest in computer science. More specifically, the Formative Testing, mostly done in quiet back rooms with selected test subjects, indicated that on the important questions about enjoyment of exhibit and increased interest in computer science by the test subjects, their self-reported Likert scale responses (1 being negative and 5 being positive) increased from 3.16 in the first evaluation to 4.38 in the third one for increased interest in CS. Likewise for the question about exhibit enjoyment (from 3.92 to 4.56). The summative evaluation, done through unobtrusive observation of exhibit use on museum floor, indicated that almost 74% of the parties that initiated the exhibit were either highly or moderately engaged by the exhibit. However, there was one major negative finding, namely the overly long duration of the exhibit, which may have caused premature abandonment of the exhibit in several cases during the summative evaluation. These tests and their results are presented and discussed in detail in this paper. The exhibit has been on permanent display at the Orlando (FL) Science Center since June 2014 and has received a strongly positive response from visitors since that time.
Timothy S Bailey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a novel pen based bluetooth enabled insulin delivery system with insulin dose tracking and advice
Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, 2017Co-Authors: Timothy S Bailey, Jenine Y StoneAbstract:ABSTRACTIntroduction: Diabetes is growing in prevalence internationally. As more individuals require insulin as part of their treatment, technology evolves to optimize delivery, improve adherence, and reduce dosing errors. Insulin pens outperform vial and syringe in simplicity, dosing accuracy, and user preference. Bolus advisors improve dosing confidence and treatment adherence. The InPen System offers a novel approach to treatment via a wireless pen that syncs to a mobile application featuring a bolus advisor, enabling convenient insulin dose tracking and more accurate bolus advice among other features.Areas covered: Existing technology for insulin delivery and bolus advice are reviewed. The mechanics and functionality of the InPen device are delineated. Findings from Formative Testing and usability studies of the InPen system are reported. Future directions for the InPen system in the treatment of diabetes are discussed.Expert opinion: Diabetes management is complex and largely data-driven. The InPen S...
Ajogbeje Oke James - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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EFFECT OF Formative Testing ON STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS
European Scientific Journal ESJ, 2012Co-Authors: Ajogbeje Oke JamesAbstract:The concern about improving the outcome of mathematics instruction requires that concerted efforts be made to find out an instructional strategy that can be used and operated upon in order to improve the quality of secondary school graduates in mathematics. Hence, this study investigated the effect of Formative Testing on students’ achievement in junior secondary school mathematics. The research design is quasi – experimental design. The sample consisted of 312 JSS II students assigned to three experimental groups and one control group. Four instruments including three Formative tests and Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) were constructed, validated, and used for the collection of all revelant data. The data collected were analyzed using t – test and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). The results of the study revealed that there was a significant difference in the level of achievement of members of the four treatment groups in their posttest scores after correcting for initial group differences. The Formative test with feedback and remediation group performed better than the other three groups. The results of the study also revealed that male students did not perform better than female students in the posttest score.