Peer-scored communication in online environments
AssigneeUniversity of Kansas
InventorsMarilyn M. Ault, Jana Craig Hare, Dave Scherrer, Jason Kroge, Isa Kretschmer, Phuong Tran, Doug Adams, Janis Bulgren
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Abstract
Systems and methods for peer-scored dialogue are provided. Meaningful communications are fostered by enabling students or players of an online game to affect the score of other players by scoring the communications of other players.
Claims20
A method for communicating in an online environment to achieve an objective, the method comprising:
- requesting input from participants in the online environment by displaying a claim to each of the participants via user interfaces displayed to the participants;
- receiving input to the claim from each of the participants, wherein the input received from each participant includes a communication;
- displaying the communications of all participants to all participants, wherein each participant receives the communications in their user interface;
- receiving input from at least some of the participants via the user interfaces such that each participant is able to provide a score for the communications of the other participants.
A method for achieving an objective in an online game using communications in the online game, the method comprising:
- presenting each player in the online game with a claim related to the objective in a user interface displayed on a player's device;
- receiving communications from each player in the online game related to the claim;
- and
- allowing each player to score the communications of other players, wherein a score of each player is increased or decreased according to the communications from the other players.
A method for achieving an objecting in an online environment using peer-scored communications, the method comprising:
- displaying a claim to a first participant;
- receiving input from the participant relating to the claim, wherein the input includes a communication;
- displaying the communication to other participants;
- displaying the communications of the other participants to the first participant;
- receiving a rating from at least some of the other participants regarding the communication of the first participant;
- receiving a rating from the first participant for at least some of the communications of the other participants;
- and
- providing results to a third party.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.