Ingenium: Improving Engagement and Accuracy with the Visualization of Latin for Language Learning

Learners commonly make errors in reading Latin, because they do not fully understand the impact of Latin's grammatical structure--its morphology and syntax--on a sentence's meaning. Synthesizing instructional methods used for Latin and artificial programming languages, Ingenium visualizes the logical structure of grammar by making each word into a puzzle block, whose shape and color reflect the word's morphological forms and roles. See the video to see how it works.

Sharon Zhou, Ivy J. Livingston, Mark Schiefsky, Stuart M. Shieber, and Krzysztof Z. Gajos. Ingenium: Engaging Novice Students with Latin Grammar. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '16, pages 944-956, New York, NY, USA, 2016. ACM.
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