Milik, N.Mitrovic, AntonijaGrimley, M.2008-08-112008-08-112007Milik, N., Mitrovic, A., Grimley, M. (2007) Fitting Spatial Ability into Intelligent Tutoring Systems Development. Los Angeles, CA, USA: 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007), 9-13 Jul 2007. Frontiers in Artifical Intelligence and Applications, 158, 617-619.0922-6389http://hdl.handle.net/10092/759Issue called: Artificial Intelligence in Education - Building Technology Rich Learning Contexts That WorkBuilding effective learning environments is an art that can only be perfected by a great deal of explorations involving the environments' audience: the learners. This paper focuses on taking into account the learners' spatial ability into the development of Intelligent Tutoring Systems. We modified ERM-Tutor, a constraint-based tutor that teaches logical database design, to provide not only textual feedback messages, but also messages containing combinations of text and pictures, in accordance with the multimedia theory of learning [1]. Results of a preliminary study performed show a promising indication for further explorations. We plan to use these results as the basis for another evaluation study in early 2007.enConference Contributions - PublishedFields of Research::280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences::280200 Artificial Intelligence and Signal and Image ProcessingFields of Research::330000 Education::330100 Education Studies::330107 Educational technology and media