A user-interface environment solution for an online educational Chess server

Author

Picussa, Juliano ; García, Laura S. ; Bueno, Juliana ; Ferreira, Márica V R ; Direne, Alexandre I. ; De Bona, Luis C E ; Silva, Fabiano ; Castilho, Marcos A. ; Sunye, Marcos S.

Author_Institution

Inf. Dept., Fed. Univ. of Parana, Curitiba

fYear

2008

fDate

3-6 June 2008

Firstpage

179

Lastpage

186

Abstract

This paper describes an interface and interaction environment for a public online Chess server, on the web, as an educational tool. The main purpose of the environment is to improve Chess teaching in Brazilian public schools. The vast majority of such Chess online servers consider and take for granted that users are specialists rather than learners. The solution described in this paper is inserted in an education environment, aiming at providing users with direct access to the contextually significant actions by means of strategic and operational help.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer games; human computer interaction; teaching; Brazilian public schools; Chess teaching; educational tool; online educational Chess server; user-interface environment solution; Absorption; Education; Educational institutions; Game theory; Human computer interaction; Informatics; Knowledge acquisition; Software tools; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research Challenges in Information Science, 2008. RCIS 2008. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1677-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2273-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632106

Filename

4632106