Evaluating adaptive hypermedia authoring while teaching adaptive systems

  • Authors:
  • Alexandra Cristea

  • Affiliations:
  • Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper we present an interesting experiment of combining teaching and research: the testing of MOT, an adaptive hypermedia authoring tool based on the LAOS adaptive hypermedia authoring framework, via a class of about twenty graduate students from the Eindhoven University of Technology, taking a two week intensive course in Adaptive Systems and User Modeling. We will show what the incentives of the experiment were, by giving a short description of LAOS, the theoretical background; then we will sketch MOT, the on-line system gradually implementing LAOS. The focus of the paper will be the experiment itself, with its parameters: the setting and initial planning, the actual implementation and the results. Finally, we will comment on the results and interpret them. Moreover, we will discuss what we have learned from these results and how they pointed us to new ways of improving MOT.