Semantically Enhanced Historical Cartoons Promoting Historical Interpretation

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The importance of cultivating learning attitudes that enable learners to not only memorize key facts but also gain insights into the background of these facts is widely recognized. This study aims to develop a novel learning support system that imparts a positive learning attitude to learners by having them perform historical interpretation activities in an exploratory manner by using historical cartoons that illustrate historical events as learning materials. This study proposes a historical interpretation activity support system based on cartoon semantics whereby learners can perform self-exploratory learning in a step-by-step manner according to the historical interpretation process model. The proposed system also aims to provide them with support to encourage their historical interpretation activity according to their interests and learning situations. It was confirmed that the proposed system helps to promote the learners’ interpretation of history instead of rote learning and has the potential to change their learning attitude toward history.