Education and demonstration – Question or problem eliciting response – Cathode ray screen display included in examining means
Reexamination Certificate
2000-08-22
2002-08-20
Cheng, Joe H. (Department: 3713)
Education and demonstration
Question or problem eliciting response
Cathode ray screen display included in examining means
C434S30700R, C434S362000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06435880
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to learning-support devices and methods, and more particularly, to a learning-support device and method of a type supporting a user's learning through making answer-selectable questions and explanations corresponding to the user's answers.
2. Description of the Background Art
Computer-aided learning-support provided for self-learning has a long history. Especially, there is a kind of learning-support method that asks a question with a plurality of choices of answers for a user to select one he/she considers as correct (hereinafter, referred to as “answer-selectable question”), and gives an explanation corresponding to the user-selected answer. Since the learning-support method of the above kind is easily realized on computers, many computer programs adopting the method have been in actual use.
In conventional learning-support devices, the choices of answers offered to the user are generally objects or concepts indicated by their names described in character strings as shown in FIG.
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. On the other hand, as shown in
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, the explanations made in response to the answers selected by the user are presented in phrases or sentences composed of character strings. Such phrases or sentences show whether the answers are correct or incorrect, and also show explanations of the objects or concepts including definitions or meanings thereof.
In some fields of learning, however, a precise expression in language is impossible or extremely difficult, and even if possible, the user may not understand the expression by intuition. For example, in a field of golf swing instruction, a motion of a golf swing is extremely difficult to precisely express in language.
In such field of learning, moving images are more appropriate than language for intuitive understanding of the user and for improved efficiency of learning.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 11-95646 (1999/95646) exemplarily discloses a learning-support method adopting images and speech. A system disclosed in the publication displays an image-screen showing a traffic situation for a user to make a prediction about a change that will subsequently occur in the situation. The system then presents a plurality of sentences each describing possible changes in the situation as choices for the user. The user presses a button of the number indicating the choice that matches with the prediction he/she has made. Thereafter, the system presents an explanation corresponding to the numbered button pressed by the user with a sentence and also with an image and speech.
In the conventional system disclosed in the publication, the image relevant to the choices is presented in addition to the sentences indicating the choices, and further, the explanation is presented not only with the sentence, but also with the image and speech. Accordingly, the efficiency of learning is increased to a certain degree.
Yet, in some fields of learning that set their goals on mastering a motion itself, such as golf swing, a sufficient learning effect cannot be expected by merely presenting an image relevant to choices and an explanation with image and speech.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a learning-support device and method capable of offering a sufficient learning effect even in a field of learning that sets its goal on mastering a motion itself.
The present invention has the following features to achieve the object above.
A first aspect of the present invention is directed to a learning-support device supporting user's a learning by presenting, to a user, an answer-selectable question and an explanation corresponding to an answer selected by the user. The device comprises a question-screen presentation part for presenting a question-screen, including a question and moving images as choices for an answer, a selection reception part for receiving a user-selection indicating which of the moving images included in the question-screen presented by the question-screen presentation part is selected by the user, a correct/incorrect determination part for determining whether the user-selection received by the selection reception part is correct or incorrect, a first explanation-screen presentation part for presenting a correct-answer-explanation-screen, including an explanation for a correct answer and a correct moving image, when the correct/incorrect determination part determines that the user-selection is correct; and a second explanation-screen presentation part for presenting an incorrect-answer-explanation-screen including an explanation for an incorrect answer and the correct moving image when the correct/incorrect determination part determines that the user selection is incorrect.
As described above, in the first aspect of the invention (and in a ninth and a seventeenth aspect of the invention described later), the moving images are aligned on the screen as the choices for the user to select one he/she considers as correct. Accordingly, the learning can be effectively performed even in such field that sets its goal on mastering a motion itself. Further, the unerring understanding of the correct motion is possible by, once again, displaying the correct moving image with the explanation in written language. As a result, a sufficient learning effect is expected.
In a case of learning golfs wings, the question-screen presents choices of swing motions. The user, therefore, can select from among the presented choices after carefully examining the minute difference thereamong. Further, the moving image of the correct swing motion is once again presented with the explanation in written language, enabling the effective learning of the correct swing motion.
According to a second aspect of the invention, based on the first aspect of the invention, the device further comprises a first storage part for previously storing a group of questions, a group of moving images, and a group of explanations, and a second storage part for previously storing a table providing information pointing out, for each answer-selectable question, the question, the moving images as being the choices, the correct moving image, and the explanations for correct and incorrect answers to be read out from the group of questions, the group of moving images, and the group of explanations which are stored in the first storage part.
In addition, the question-screen presentation part generates the question-screen by referring to the table stored in the second storage part and reading out the question and the moving images as being the choices of answer from the first storage part. The first explanation-screen presentation part generates the correct-answer-explanation-screen by referring to the table stored in the second storage part and reading out the explanation for the correct answer and the correct moving image from the first storage part. The second explanation-screen presentation part generates the incorrect-answer-explanation-screen by referring to the table stored in the second storage part and reading out the explanation for the incorrect answer and the correct moving image from the first storage part.
As described above, in the second aspect of the invention, the first storage part previously stores the group of questions, the group of moving images, and the group of explanations, and the second storage part previously stores the table. On the table, described are pointing information (i.e., pointers), for each answer-selectable question, the question, the moving images as being the choices, the correct moving image, and the explanations for correct and incorrect answers to be read out from the group of questions, the group of moving images, and the group of explanations. The screen generation part, therefore, generates respective screens by referring to the table and reading out the corresponding questions, explanations, and moving images from the first storage part.
Note that the first and the second storage parts may be implemented by either
Kawaguchi Yuichi
Matsuoka Makoto
Tsumori Shinichi
Cheng Joe H.
Christman Kathleen M.
Wenderoth , Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
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