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Selected Works of J. Keith Nisbett
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A Kinematically Intelligent Blackboard for Computer Aided Instruction
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 'Engineering Education: Renewing America's Technology' (1993, Washington, DC)
  • J. Keith Nisbett, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • D. Watkins
  • Clark R. Barker, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Abstract

A CAI (computer-aided instruction) package is being developed to be used as a classroom tool for the instruction of undergraduate mechanical engineering students in an introductory kinematics of mechanisms course. This graphical environment allows the instructor to emulate on the projected graphics screen everything that is currently done on the blackboard for planar mechansims. Unlike the blackboard, the software will have the intelligence to interpret the drawings in a kinematic sense so that the drawing of the linkage will behave as a linkage. The software environment involves three principal components: (1) a sketching method for defining the linkage, (2) the "kinematic intelligence" to interpret the sketch and animate the linkage, and (3) the ability to develop and demonstrate kinematic concepts

Meeting Name
23rd Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (1993: Nov. 6-9, Washington, DC)
Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
  • CAI Package,
  • Computer Aided Instruction,
  • Computer Graphics,
  • Educational Courses,
  • Graphical Environment,
  • Intelligent Tutoring Systems,
  • Kinematic Intelligence,
  • Kinematically Intelligent Blackboard,
  • Kinematics,
  • Kinematics Course,
  • Linkage,
  • Mechanical Engineering,
  • Mechanical Engineering Computing,
  • Planar Mechansims,
  • Projected Graphics Screen,
  • Sketching Method,
  • Software Environment,
  • Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Students
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
0-7803-1482-4
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 1993 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
11-1-1993
Publication Date
01 Nov 1993
Disciplines
Citation Information
J. Keith Nisbett, D. Watkins and Clark R. Barker. "A Kinematically Intelligent Blackboard for Computer Aided Instruction" Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 'Engineering Education: Renewing America's Technology' (1993, Washington, DC) (1993)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/j-keith-nisbett/5/