Assessment of User Rationality and Adaptivity: A Case Study

The paper presents the results of an empirical study on users' behaviors when they were asked to perform a task and its variant in a usability test. Specific focus was set on assessing the users' rationality and adaptivity. The system tested was a multilingual e-Learning platform. 7 German and 3 Slovenian users were employed. Video-recordings of the two isomorphic tasks were segmented and coded. Results show that the users were rational and adaptive. KEYWORDS Mental models, situated cognition, task variant, e-learning platform

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: IADIS
• Authors: Effie Lai-Chong Law, Borka Jerman-Blazic
• Keywords: E-learning Platform, IADIS 2004, IADIS 2008, KEYWORDS Mental Models, Multilingual E-Learning Platform