Yan Zhao's book, entitled "Interactive Data Mining" provides a conceptual framework and a systematic study of human-computer interactions and collaborations for effective data mining. The thesis is based on an assumption that the effectiveness of data mining systems depends crucially on semantics information about data and different user requirements. In contrast to many data mining models that concentrate on automation and efficiency, interactive data mining systems focus on adaptive and effective communication between human users and computer systems. Interactive systems fully explore the...
Yan Zhao's book, entitled "Interactive Data Mining" provides a conceptual framework and a systematic study of human-computer interactions and collabor...
This monograph investigates 15 L2 creative writers' social constructive power in identity constructions. Through interviews and think-aloud story writing sessions, the central study considers how L2 writer voices are mediated by the writers' autobiographical identities, namely, their sense of selves formulated by their previous language learning and literacy experiences. The inquiry takes the epistemological stance that L2 creative writing is simultaneously a cognitive construct and a social phenomenon and that these two are mutually inclusive. The study contributes to L2 creative writing...
This monograph investigates 15 L2 creative writers' social constructive power in identity constructions. Through interviews and think-aloud story w...