Human use regulatory affairs advisor (HURAA): learning about research ethics with intelligent learning modules.
The Human Use Regulatory Affairs Advisor (HURAA) is a Web-based facility that provides help and training on the ethical use of human subjects in research, based on documents and regulations in United States federal agencies. HURAA has a number of standard features of conventional Web facilities and computer-based training, such as hypertext, multimedia, help modules, glossaries, archives, links to other sites, and page-turning didactic instruction. HURAA also has these intelligent features: (1) an animated conversational agent that serves as a navigational guide for the Web facility, (2) lessons with case-based and explanation-based reasoning, (3) document retrieval through natural language queries, and (4) a context-sensitive Frequently Asked Questions segment, called Point & Query. This article describes the functional learning components of HURAA, specifies its computational architecture, and summarizes empirical tests of the facility on learners.
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Xiangen
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Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Tennessee 38152, USA. xhu@memphis.edu
Graesser
Arthur C
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D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D032984:Ethics, Research / Q000193:education*; D006805:Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000193:education* / Q000941:ethics; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods*; D035842:Research Subjects; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface