APPRAISING THE COGNITIVE FEATURES OF SUBJECT TESTS
The study's aim was to develop a procedure that could be used to appraise the cognitive features of subject (achievement) tests. Cognitive taxonomies and an accompanying coding scheme were developed and applied to the GRE Subject Tests in Psychology and Literature in English. The cognitive profiles of these two tests were found to be strikingly different, indicating that the taxonomies were operating as intended. Ways of improving and extending the procedure are discussed.
Pervasive computing comes to provide human-centric services, facilitating user interaction. These services are essentially context-aware which require complex, heterogeneous infrastructures containing numerous sensors and actuators configured for in-door environments, called ?smart spaces?. One challenge in expanding such services is the complexity of these environments, requiring a significant amount of time to set-up and configure. In this paper we introduce an approach for providing assistance to remote users who can interface with the smart space either by using mobile devices, or by using a cut-down version of the ?smart space? with only a few simple but essential sensors. Furthermore we describe how this approach has been incorporated in a prototype non-intrusive human-centric application, providing assistance in the case of meetings, lectures and presentations called ?Memory Jog?.