Learning-interface design: Recognizing learner gestures.

In many ways, computers are quite insensitive to learners, which severely limits the applicability to computer delivery of many traditional models of instruction . The human gestures computers can detect must therefore be put to good use.

In tomorrow's issue of The eLearning Developers' Journal, Michael Allen concludes his five-part series on the design of learning interfaces. 

True, intelligent communication between the computer and the user is still beyond the reach of most e-Learning software. Unless the learner uses gestures the computer understands, the e-Learning application is limited in its ability to respond. In this article, Michael Allen outlines the secrets that not only make e-Learning easy to use, but that encourage learners to positively enjoy your applications.

Topics we plan to address in upcoming issues of The Journal include:

• Avatars as interfaces to e-Learning applications.
• Flash! tips and tricks for e-Learning
• Authorware 7
• Research applications: Graphics in e-Learning (Part 2)
• Boston E-Learning Association (BELA) Panel Report: e-Learning initiatives in Financial Services institutions

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