Editorial

Welcome to our regular edition of CIT devoted to the 2008 ITI (Information Technology Interfaces) Conference. The following 15 papers (out of 148) were selected from those originally published in the ITI 2008 Conference Proceedings (IEEE Catalog Number CFP08498-PRT). As in previous years, papers were selected after having received high ratings from both of their respective international reviewers and as being representative of the broad scope character of the ITI Conference in terms of topics solicited over these last 30 years

Author Index

Author Index: CIT Vol. 16 (2008), No 1–

Editorial

Welcome to our regular edition of CIT devoted to the 2008 ITI (Information Technology Interfaces) Conference. The following 15 papers (out of 148) were selected from those originally published in the ITI 2008 Conference Proceedings (IEEE Catalog Number CFP08498-PRT). As in previous years, papers were selected after having received high ratings from both of their respective international reviewers and as being representative of the broad scope character of the ITI Conference in terms of topics solicited over these last 30 years

Author Index

Author Index: CIT Vol. 16 (2008), No 1–

Mapas mentais para o processo de aprendizagem: uma proposta de intervenção

Involving students is a challenge for the teacher, as well as the need to develop methods that can be used to meet expectations of effectiveness and quality of learning. In this context, active learning changes the focus of the teacher to the student, that is, the student is encouraged to increase her involvement in the teaching-learning process, and the Mind Map is a strategy used for this. The Mind Map is a visual diagram used to organize information and facilitate cognitive connections between ideas. A systematic review of the literature that implemented the PRISMA recommendations was carried out in relation to the Mind Maps applied in teaching. This research aimed to respond three questions. Among the results of this research, it was discovered that the greatest use of Mind Maps is to support active learning and the type of course that most uses them is the medical course. An intervention project based on the bibliographic review was proposed. This intervention consists of six activities for the use of Mind Maps in any discipline of na IFCE course. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this proposal was unapplied, but the literature review demonstrated the benefits of using Mind Maps in the learning process.Envolver os alunos é um desafio para o docente, assim como a necessidade de desenvolver métodos que possam ser usados para atender as expectativas de eficácia e qualidade da aprendizagem. Nesse contexto, existe a aprendizagem ativa que muda o foco do professor para o aluno, ou seja, o aluno é incentivado a aumentar seu envolvido no processo de ensino-aprendizagem e o Mapa Mental é uma estratégia usada para isso. O Mapa Mental é um diagrama visual usado para organizar informações e facilitar as conexões cognitivas entre ideias. Uma revisão sistemática da literatura que usou as recomendações PRISMA foi realizada em relação aos Mapas Mentais aplicados no ensino. Essa pesquisa teve o objetivo de responder três questões. Entre os resultados dessa pesquisa foram encontrados que a maior utilização dos Mapas Mentais é no apoio a aprendizagem ativa e o tipo de curso que mais os utilizam é o curso de medicina. Foi proposto um projeto de intervenção baseado na revisão bibliográfica. Essa intervenção consiste de seis atividades para o uso de Mapas Mentais em qualquer disciplina de um curso do IFCE. Devido à pandemia do COVID-19 essa proposta não foi aplicada, mas a revisão bibliográfica demonstrou os benefícios da utilização de Mapas Mentais no processo de aprendizagem

A Web site architecture and GUI for UML models search

The tools and the way that nowadays exists for documenting doesn’t get on well with all the different existing file formats and media files. There are many ways to document software: with a video, an audio, a word document, a PDF, diagrams in different formats, discussions via email or on a chat, Internet resources and references... And you sometimes need to document another document: i.e. some the meeting reports are a document of another document (the recorded videos) and this dissertation is all the documentation of this project piled up. UmlModels is trying to gather the main existing ways to document and embed them into an area/place easily accessible everywhere you can connect to the Internet. Many advantages can be taken from here such us no worries storing the versions, the storage, wrong references to renamed or moved documents and many, many others. Here, the door is open to a huge world of new revolutionary ideas. UmlModels is also a search portal with superior semantic content. UmlModels provides a search service of UML‐Models addressed to software community engineers. This provided service does not exist on the Internet and aims to be innovative. Unlike other search engines such as Google, UmlModels provides intrinsic information of the artifacts (see ‘An Artifact for UmlModels’) in addition to the context information. Full machines entirely dedicated to search software artifacts (crawlers) are day and night searching information on the Internet that can be relevant for the software community. The retrieved information is studied, indexed, organized and offered to the users of UmlModels into a representative Model. The work presented here is the first step of a constant evolution towards a new conception of the software documentation. Nowadays the portal is able to provide almost any kind of software artifact; however only images are automatically searched by the crawlers so only software diagrams are indexed. On the future, as soon as we give intelligence enough to our bots to extract semantic from other elements such as source code, packages, assemblies and many others, will be searched into source code files, zips, textual documents such as docs, power points, PDFs and so on.Ingeniería en Informátic