Universal Access in the Information Society最新文献_第9页

EFL learners' engagement in online learning context: development and validation of potential measurement inventory. EFL学习者在在线学习环境中的参与：潜在测量清单的开发和验证。

IF 2.4 4区计算机科学

Universal Access in the Information Society Pub Date : 2023-04-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10209-023-00993-0

Maryam Abbasi, Masoumeh Ghamoushi, Zohre Mohammadi Zenouzagh

{"title":"EFL learners' engagement in online learning context: development and validation of potential measurement inventory.","authors":"Maryam Abbasi, Masoumeh Ghamoushi, Zohre Mohammadi Zenouzagh","doi":"10.1007/s10209-023-00993-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10209-023-00993-0","url":null,"abstract":"Research has proved learner engagement is a strong predictor of academic achievement, especially in the online learning environment. The lack of any reliable and valid instrument to measure this construct in the context of online education made the researchers of the current study develop and validate a potential measurement inventory to assess EFL learners' engagement in the online learning environment. For this purpose, a comprehensive review of the related literature and careful investigation of the existing instruments were carried out to find the theoretical constructs for learner engagement which led to the development of a 56-item Likert scale questionnaire. The newly developed questionnaire was piloted with 560 female and male EFL university students selected based on nonprobability convenience sampling. The results of the factor analysis indicated the reduction of items to 48 loaded on three main components, namely behavioral engagement (15 items), emotional engagement (16 items), and cognitive engagement (17 items). The results also revealed that the newly developed questionnaire enjoyed a reliability index of 0.925. The findings of the current study will undoubtedly help teaching practitioners assess EFL learners' engagement in the online learning context and make principled decisions when it comes to learners' engagement.","PeriodicalId":49115,"journal":{"name":"Universal Access in the Information Society","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10106874/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9714055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

A computational model for assisting individuals with suicidal ideation based on context histories 基于情境历史的自杀意念协助个体的计算模型

IF 2.4 4区计算机科学

Universal Access in the Information Society Pub Date : 2023-03-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10209-023-00991-2

Derick M. Rentz, W. Heckler, J. Barbosa

引用次数: 1

Designing user interfaces for content simplification aimed at people with cognitive impairments. 为针对认知障碍人群的内容简化设计用户界面。

IF 2.4 4区计算机科学

Universal Access in the Information Society Pub Date : 2023-03-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10209-023-00986-z

Lourdes Moreno, Helen Petrie, Paloma Martínez, Rodrigo Alarcon

{"title":"Designing user interfaces for content simplification aimed at people with cognitive impairments.","authors":"Lourdes Moreno, Helen Petrie, Paloma Martínez, Rodrigo Alarcon","doi":"10.1007/s10209-023-00986-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10209-023-00986-z","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive accessibility aims to make content more accessible for people with cognitive impairments, such as the elderly and people with intellectual and learning disabilities. In this sense, it is possible to design an accessible user interface from a cognitive point of view. As a contribution, this article presents cognitive accessibility design patterns and their application in designing the Easier web system's user interface. The Easier web system provides a tool that assists in the understanding and readability of text content geared towards people with intellectual disabilities. It detects complex words and offers easier replacements and other resources such as a definition of the complex word. In addition to applying the design patterns, user tests with people with intellectual disabilities and older people have been carried out to evaluate the cognitive accessibility of the Easier system's interface. The results indicate that people with cognitive impairments know how to use the interfaces and have a satisfactory experience. In addition, a design proposal to provide a glossary mechanism to be used in web interfaces with simplified texts is presented and validated.","PeriodicalId":49115,"journal":{"name":"Universal Access in the Information Society","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10036960/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9714060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

A multimethod synthesis of Covid-19 education research: the tightrope between covidization and meaningfulness. 新冠肺炎教育研究的多方法综合：新冠肺炎与意义之间的钢丝。

IF 3.1 4区计算机科学

Universal Access in the Information Society Pub Date : 2023-03-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10209-023-00989-w

Mohammed Saqr, Miroslava Raspopovic Milic, Katina Pancheva, Jovana Jovic, Elitsa V Peltekova, Miguel Á Conde

{"title":"A multimethod synthesis of Covid-19 education research: the tightrope between covidization and meaningfulness.","authors":"Mohammed Saqr, Miroslava Raspopovic Milic, Katina Pancheva, Jovana Jovic, Elitsa V Peltekova, Miguel Á Conde","doi":"10.1007/s10209-023-00989-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10209-023-00989-w","url":null,"abstract":"This study offers a comprehensive analysis of COVID-19 research in education. A multi-methods approach was used to capture the full breadth of educational research. As such, a bibliometric analysis, structural topic modeling, and qualitative synthesis of top papers were combined. A total of 4,201 articles were retrieved from Scopus, mostly published from 2019 to 2021. In this work special attention is paid to analyzing and synthesizing findings about: (i) status of research about COVID-19 regarding frequencies, venues, publishing countries, (ii) identification of main topics in the COVID-19 research, and (iii) identification of the major themes in most cited articles and their impact on the educational community. Structural topic modeling identified three main groups of topics that related to education in general, moving to online education, or diverse topics (e.g., perceptions, inclusion, medical education, engagement and motivation, well-being, and equality). A deeper analysis of the papers that received most attention revealed that problem understanding was the dominating theme of papers, followed by challenges, impact, guidance, online migration, and tools and resources. A vast number of papers were produced. However, thoughtful, well-planned, and meaningful research was hard to conceptualize or implement, and a sense of urgency led to a deluge of research with thin contributions in a time of dire need to genuine insights.","PeriodicalId":49115,"journal":{"name":"Universal Access in the Information Society","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10027595/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9714061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

A study on social media and higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. 新冠肺炎大流行期间社交媒体和高等教育的研究。

IF 2.4 4区计算机科学

Universal Access in the Information Society Pub Date : 2023-03-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10209-023-00988-x

Sarthak Sengupta, Anurika Vaish

{"title":"A study on social media and higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Sarthak Sengupta, Anurika Vaish","doi":"10.1007/s10209-023-00988-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10209-023-00988-x","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays social media usage has increased drastically among the stakeholders of higher educational institutions. The COVID-19 pandemic has suddenly increased the surge of social media users due to the forced implementation of online pedagogy and travel restrictions. The research study presented in this paper attempted to analyze social media usage in higher education. The data were collected from primary and secondary sources with the help of leading research databases, survey questionnaires, the Delphi method, and brainstorming sessions. Statistical tools and analytic techniques incorporated in the study included bibliometric analysis, word cloud, co-occurrence network, thematic map, thematic evolution, co-word analysis, country-wise analysis along with collaboration network, statistical survey, mind mapping, and analytic hierarchy process. The study justified the aspects of social media usage in the higher educational environment. It was found that the research fraternity around the globe focused more on understanding the aspects of social media and higher education during the trying times of the Coronavirus crisis. The maximum impact of social media usage on higher education was found to be from teaching-learning and discussions, and public relations and networking. It was also found that social networking platforms like WhatsApp, YouTube, Facebook (Meta), LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter were very common among the stakeholders of higher education. This study is of huge importance because it can help in paving the way to strategize remedial measures for increasing positivity and minimizing the negativity of social media usage in institutions of higher education across the world.Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10209-023-00988-x.","PeriodicalId":49115,"journal":{"name":"Universal Access in the Information Society","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10025795/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9707597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5

A mobile e-learning application for enhancement of basic mathematical skills in visually impaired children 用于提高视障儿童基本数学技能的移动电子学习应用程序

IF 2.4 4区计算机科学

Universal Access in the Information Society Pub Date : 2023-03-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10209-023-00990-3

Muhammad Shoaib, Shakeel Khan, Donal Fitzpatrick, I. Pitt

引用次数: 2

Meaningful learning: motivations of older adults in serious games. 有意义的学习：老年人在严肃游戏中的动机。

IF 2.4 4区计算机科学

Universal Access in the Information Society Pub Date : 2023-03-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10209-023-00987-y

Johnny Salazar Cardona, Jeferson Arango Lopez, Francisco Luis Gutiérrez Vela, Fernando Moreira

{"title":"Meaningful learning: motivations of older adults in serious games.","authors":"Johnny Salazar Cardona, Jeferson Arango Lopez, Francisco Luis Gutiérrez Vela, Fernando Moreira","doi":"10.1007/s10209-023-00987-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10209-023-00987-y","url":null,"abstract":"Social sustainability is the generation of significant behaviors through balanced levels of education, learning and awareness so that the population has a good standard of living, achieves self-improvement and supports society. This can be achieved with various strategies, one of which is learning through games, which has gained popularity in recent years due to positive results. This is effectively achieved through serious gaming, which is growing steadily, mostly in education and healthcare. This type of strategy has been typically used in young populations with a transparent interaction with technological processes that facilitate its application. However, one cannot neglect other populations such as the elderly, who may experience a technology gap and may not perceive this type of initiative in the best light. The purpose of this article is to identify the different motivations that can encourage older adults to use serious games to encourage learning processes through technology. For this purpose, different previous research on gaming experiences with older adults has been identified, from which it was possible to categorize a series of factors that motivate this population. Subsequently, we represented these factors by means of a model of motivation for the elderly and, to be able to use it, we have defined a set of heuristics based on this model. Finally, we used the heuristics by means of a questionnaire to evaluate the design of serious gaming for older adults, obtaining positive results for the use of these elements to guide the design and construction of serious games for learning in older adults.","PeriodicalId":49115,"journal":{"name":"Universal Access in the Information Society","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10012313/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9714056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Understanding mindsets, skills, current practices, and barriers of adoption of digital accessibility in Kuwait's software development landscape. 了解科威特软件开发环境中采用数字无障碍的心态、技能、当前做法和障碍。

IF 2.4 4区计算机科学

Universal Access in the Information Society Pub Date : 2023-03-11 DOI: 10.1007/s10209-023-00980-5

Zainab AlMeraj, Dari Alhuwail, Rumana Qadri, Shok Shama, Michael Crabb

{"title":"Understanding mindsets, skills, current practices, and barriers of adoption of digital accessibility in Kuwait's software development landscape.","authors":"Zainab AlMeraj, Dari Alhuwail, Rumana Qadri, Shok Shama, Michael Crabb","doi":"10.1007/s10209-023-00980-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10209-023-00980-5","url":null,"abstract":"The responsibility for creating accessible software within the development of digital services is important for multiple reasons, mainly equity and inclusion. However, adopting and sustaining the development of accessible digital solutions has always been challenging, more so in countries that are relatively new to the concept of universal design, and physical and digital accessibility, and where legal sanctions are not yet established. This work investigates the technology scene in the State of Kuwait and analyses the responses of computing professionals with regard to their skills, best practices and procurement of accessible tech and to their level of awareness toward people with disabilities. The findings reveal a low level of awareness among tech professionals with regard to disabilities and digital accessibility-related standards. The findings also highlight a lack of available guidance for developing inclusive design and accessibility. Additionally, time constraints, lack of training, legal enforcement and fundamentals concepts during undergraduate and higher education contributed to observed weaknesses. Participants were keen to learn more and benefited from flyers and free professional development courses offered as incentives for survey completion.","PeriodicalId":49115,"journal":{"name":"Universal Access in the Information Society","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10005915/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9707595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Empirical evaluation of Easy Language recommendations: a systematic literature review from journal research in Catalan, English, and Spanish 简易语言建议的实证评价:从加泰罗尼亚语，英语和西班牙语期刊研究的系统文献综述

IF 2.4 4区计算机科学

Universal Access in the Information Society Pub Date : 2023-03-11 DOI: 10.1007/s10209-023-00975-2

Mariona González-Sordé, A. Matamala

引用次数: 0

What are tutors' perceptions of an online tutoring project-Digital Learning Companion-During the COVID-19 pandemic? A case study in Taiwan. 新冠肺炎大流行期间，导师们对在线辅导项目——数字学习伙伴——有什么看法？台湾案例研究。

IF 2.4 4区计算机科学

Universal Access in the Information Society Pub Date : 2023-03-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10209-023-00976-1

Khanh Nguyen Phuong Tran, Cathy Weng, Phuong Lan Tran-Nguyen, Melese Astatke, Nguyen-Phuong-Dung Tran

{"title":"What are tutors' perceptions of an online tutoring project-Digital Learning Companion-During the COVID-19 pandemic? A case study in Taiwan.","authors":"Khanh Nguyen Phuong Tran, Cathy Weng, Phuong Lan Tran-Nguyen, Melese Astatke, Nguyen-Phuong-Dung Tran","doi":"10.1007/s10209-023-00976-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10209-023-00976-1","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 outbreak has had serious impact on remote education and service-learning implementation in Taiwan. To alleviate these impacts, the Digital Learning Companion, an online tutoring project, was proposed to bridge the digital divide and learning gap among remote children, while offering university students an online service-learning environment. This project recruited international students as tutors for local children. To explore tutors' perceptions of this project during the COVID-19 pandemic, qualitative research, particularly a case study, was conducted. Adopting purposive sampling, 15 participants were chosen for interviews at the end of the project, and 10 reflective videos were used to reveal further information to supplement the interview results. Content analysis was employed to analyse the data. The findings implied that using JoinNet and tutoring journals significantly facilitated the tutoring process, which led to tutors' remarkable development in skills, social relationships, multicultural experience, altruism, social responsibility, self-efficacy, and affective values. However, they encountered some challenges, such as technical problems, communication barrier, lack of tutee information, and short tutoring duration. The solutions to these challenges and insightful suggestions for the project development are pointed out. The results of this study contribute to tutors' cognitive, social, and motivational development, and support the online service-learning-integrated curriculum, which can become a reference for further studies regarding online service-learning implementation to bridge the research gap.Graphical abstract: ","PeriodicalId":49115,"journal":{"name":"Universal Access in the Information Society","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9992914/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10093445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3