Design of a web-based visual simulator and its evaluation based on real computer education

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Design of a web-based visual simulator and its evaluation based on real computer education

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International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Commuications, Networks and Systems & Workshops archive
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Simulation tools and techniques for communications, networks and systems & workshops table of contents

Marseille, France

POSTER SESSION: Posters table of contents

Article No. 44

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-963-9799-20-2

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Yoshiro Imai	Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan
Keiichi Kaneko	Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Masaki Nakagawa	Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

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: ICST
: INRIA

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ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering) ICST, Brussels, Belgium, Belgium

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A visual computer simulator has been designed to help learners to understand computer architecture and organization efficiently. It is used in a real education, such as classroom lecture of computer architecture and exercise of assembly programming. Our simulator is written in a pure Java language and works not only as an applet but also as a stand-alone application. Its graphical user interface (GUI) provides visual simulating function in the register-transfer level and assists beginners of computer science to comprehend how a computer works. The simulator also equips built-in e-mail handlers to facilitate communicating function and supports asynchronous information sharing between learners and instructors. We have applied our simulator into a real education and evaluated its simulating and communicating capabilities. This paper reports statistic evaluation of visualization and communication. It is confirmed that capabilities of visualization and communication of our simulator are statistically significant.

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	1	Imai, Y., Kaneko, K., and Nakagawa M. 2006. Application of a Visual Computer Simulator into Collaborative Learning. Journal of Computing and Information Technology (CIT). Vol.14, No.4, 267--273 (Dec. 2006).
	2	Imai, Y., Tomita, S., Niimi, H. and Kitamura, T. 2004. Web-based Computer Visual Simulator. Proc. of Technology Enhanced Learning (Workshop of 18th IFIP World Computer Congress). 111--120 (Aug. 2004).