Lexicon is an app intended to create, manage, share and learn customized vocabulary. Users can create glossaries individually, collaboratively or both. The app will also provide a review system based on spaced repetition to practice and recall vocabulary. Basing our system on cognitive learning techniques, we aim to bring those new terms from short-time memory to long and even long-life memory.
This first readme serves merely as a draft paper for shaping initial states of LEXICON. This document will be conveniently updated following the development of the application.
- Enter and save your own words for review
- Classify your words based on categories
- Create glossaries with links to categories
- Set your personal goals (daily, weekly, monthly)
- i.e how many words you want to be able to remember by the end of (day, week, month)
- Establish links within categories (contexts in which the word may be used).
- Establish links to other words.
- Enter examples.
- Create and use later on your own exercises for revision.
- Create 'memory springs' (or tips) that will help you remember the word when you're not sure (Establish as many connections as possible).
- Short time memory (reminders every 20 minutes to look at the words up to six hours);
- Long time memory (test your knowledge) if OK move to state 3;
- Passive knowledge (test your knowledge: foreign word given... enter translation) if Ok move to state 4;
- Active use (test your knowledge: translation given... enter the foreign word) if Ok set a time reminder for when you want to review this word again if not Ok step down to state 3.