M
Maria Virvou
Researcher at University of Piraeus
Publications - 351
Citations - 4598
Maria Virvou is an academic researcher from University of Piraeus. The author has contributed to research in topics: User interface & User modeling. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 330 publications receiving 3841 citations.
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Combining Software Games with Education: Evaluation of its Educational Effectiveness
TL;DR: The results of the evaluation show that educational virtual reality games can be very motivating while retaining or even improving the educational effects on students.
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On the usability and likeability of virtual reality games for education: The case of VR-ENGAGE
Maria Virvou,George Katsionis +1 more
TL;DR: The evaluation results showed that the game was indeed usable and likeable but there was scope for usability and likeability improvement so that the educational benefits may be maximised for all categories of students.
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Review: Student modeling approaches: A literature review for the last decade
TL;DR: One significant conclusion is that the most preferred technique for representing the student's mastery of knowledge is the overlay approach, and stereotyping seems to be ideal for modeling students' learning styles and preferences.
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Mobile educational features in authoring tools for personalised tutoring
Maria Virvou,Eythimios Alepis +1 more
TL;DR: A mobile authoring tool that is developed and is called Mobile Author, which can be used by human instructors either from a computer or a mobile phone to create their own Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) and to distribute them to their students.
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Evaluating the persona effect of an interface agent in a tutoring system
Maria Moundridou,Maria Virvou +1 more
TL;DR: The hypothesis that a pedagogical agent incorporated in an ITS can enhance students' learning experience is confirmed and the hypothesis that the presence of the agent improves short-term learning effects was rejected.