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Developing an Online History Educational System to Present the Progression of Spatial Regions

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Entertainment for Education. Digital Techniques and Systems (Edutainment 2010)

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This research developed an online history educational System, named HES-SPATO2. It is unique in that it integrates the indispensable elements of history events such as person, space, and time for increasing the understandability of complicated history learning materials. HES-SPATO2 employed GIS concept of information layers and web-based technology to help students acquire skills for historical thinking. In HES-SPATO2, history learning objects can be formed by integrating the elements of history events to specify “who” initiated the history event, “whom” the event influenced, “what” they did, “when” the event happened, and “where” the event happened. HES-SPATO2 applied temporal logic to reason the temporal relationships between history events. It also applied spatial logic to reason the spatial relationships between regions. Combining temporal logic and spatial logic makes it possible to present not only movements of persons and explanation texts but also the progression of spatial regions along the history events in animation defined in each SPATO (Spatial, Person, Action/Attribute, and Temporal Object) and therefore makes the learning material more understandable. This system not only brings us the obvious advantage of anywhere-anytime learning but also provides ways to revitalize the teaching and learning of history.

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  1. Department of Information Management, Chung-Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan

    Jia-Jiunn Lo & Hsiao-Han Tu

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  1. Institute of Automation, LIAMA, The Sino-French Lab in Computer Science, NLPR, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

    Xiaopeng Zhang

  2. School of Software, Ideal Institute of Information and Technology, E-learning Laboratory of Jilin Province, Engineering & Research Center of E-learning, Northeast Normal University, 130117, ChangChun, China

    Shaochun Zhong

  3. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, DEARC – Digital Entertainment and Animation Research Center, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  4. School of Information Technology, South St. Murdoch, Murdoch University, 6150, Perth, WA, Australia

    Kevin Wong

  5. School of Education and Science, Digital Entertainment Research Center, Nanjing Normal University, 310097, Nanjing, China

    Ruwei Yun

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Lo, JJ., Tu, HH. (2010). Developing an Online History Educational System to Present the Progression of Spatial Regions. In: Zhang, X., Zhong, S., Pan, Z., Wong, K., Yun, R. (eds) Entertainment for Education. Digital Techniques and Systems. Edutainment 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6249. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14533-9_14

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