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Tirsus X

Tirsvs X is a web-based educational application which relies in user adaptation and multidimensional navigation techniques. It aimes to turn the learning process of historic events into an easy and interesting subject. Moreover it tries to develop a generic eLearning framework that may be used as a generic-purpose engine to build learning applications with similar features.

The topic choosen to test the benefits of our techniques has been the Spanish Civil War in Asturias.

The application organizes and structures the base of knowledge in a space-time manner, so it allows different ways of navigation through the same information. The combination of all of these navigation techniques provides the user a global image of the events, as well as an easy access to the data.

In the other hand, the adaptative support is based on a user-model built over some important user parameters which are collected by mean of several tests. This allows the adaptation of the application depending on different user backgrounds, his/her prior knowledge and even different user ages. At the same time it allows the user to explore and navigate the application freely.

Key Features

• Usability: As it is a web-based application, it relies in usability and accesibility principles.
• Flexible: TirsvsX is based on XML and XSLT transformations, so it shows the same information in different formats (at present PDF and XHTML) and to make it accesible to different devices such as PDA, cell-phones, and so on.
• Methodology and Standards: The application has been developed following using the OOHDM methodology and web standards such as SVG+SMIL, XHTML or CSS2.
• Adaptative Support: Tirsvs X clasifies the usesr in different categories, trying to adapt the interface to them. It provides three ways of adaptative support:
  
  • Adaptative Navigation Support (ANS).
  • Adaptative contents.
  • Adaptative interface.
• Multidimensional Navigation: The user is able to explore the same information using differents perspectives.
• Amusing: Tirsvs X has an eye candy interface, with tons of animations and images.

Video Demos

A picture is better that 1.000 words, an a motion picture is even better! The videos below include demostration of some of the best features of this technology:

Try it Out!

Here you have some tips or recommendations to fully enjoy the application. Please note that those are just tips, so you will be able browse the application's knowledge base whithout using them.

1. Enable javascript in your browser.
2. Install the Adobe Viewer plug-in to be able to interact with the SVG animations.
3. Use Internet Explorer as your web browser (because of the compatibility with Adobe Viewer). In other case you will just see static images despite of SVG animations.
4. Finnally visit Tirsvs X web site and don´t forget to turn up your speakers! Enjoy it!

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