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Thomas Kuß

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Thomas Kuss, Dipl. Psych.

Short Vita

1969:

Born in Freiburg (Germany).

1991-1998:

Study of Psychology at the University of Freiburg (Germany).

1994:

Graduation in Psychology at the University of Freiburg (Germany). Thesis: "Der Einfluß der domänenspezifischen Interessenlage auf die Konstruktion präferierter mentaler Modelle beim räumlich-relationalen Schließen" [On the influence of social perspective on the construction of spatial mental models].

April 1999 - January 2001:

PhD student of the VGK.

Contact

Phone: ++49 (0) 761 / 203 4939
FAX: ++49 (0) 761 / 203 4938
email: thomas@cognition.iig.uni-freiburg.de

Center for Cognitive Science
Institute of Computer Science and Social Research
University of Freiburg
D-79098 Freiburg (Germany)

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Ph.D. Project

Topic: The use of background knowledge, existing in hypertext, in the context of learning processes

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. G. Strube (Freiburg)

Start / End of the Ph.D. project: April 1999 - June 2001

Summary

The topic of this Ph.D. project is the use of new media in the context of knowledge acquisition and knowledge exchange. The materials for the lecture "introduction to cognitive science" will be implemented in a system like ELM-Art developed by Gerd Weber. ELM-ART is an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that collects data of the learners' individual learning history and supports them during the course of the learning process. The "Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science", published by Gerhard Strube, should be used as background knowledge. To take new media into account, an electronic version of this encyclopedia is currently developed. In addition to the electronic version of the encyclopedia, it will be necessary to record a trace that must be adapted to the one of ELM-ART. This protocol stores variables like the following ones: "Which term has been looked up?", "How long was the reading time of the entry?", "Which other terms have been looked up using the links given in the entry?". Subjects for empirical studies within this project will be members of the Ph. D. project. Their task will be to work through the lecture using the electronic version of the encyclopedia. In addition to the field study, I will also carry out experiments in a laboratory setting.

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Last update: 5 Dec 2002, Erik Ründal
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