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AH
2008
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
The Effectiveness of Personalized Movie Explanations: An Experiment Using Commercial Meta-data
Abstract. This paper studies the properties of a helpful and trustworthy explanation in a movie recommender system. It discuss the results of an experiment based on a natural langu...
Nava Tintarev, Judith Masthoff
AH
2008
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Does 'Notice' Prompt Noticing? Raising Awareness in Language Learning with an Open Learner Model
Open learner models (OLM) are learner models that are accessible to the learner they represent. Many examples now exist, often with the aim of prompting learner reflection on their...
Gheida Shahrour, Susan Bull
AH
2008
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
What Can I Watch on TV Tonight?
This paper presents the methods used in a TV Recommender System that helps users in the difficult task of finding an interesting TV program from among the hundreds of channels that...
David Bueno, Ricardo Conejo, David Martín, ...
AH
2008
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Facilitating Collaboration in Virtual Environments
The evolution of learning systems brought improvements to the functionality of their components by offering support and mediating learning, communication and collaboration. However...
Diana Chihaia
AH
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Guaranteeing the Correctness of an Adaptive Tutoring System
Abstract. This paper presents an approach to create adaptive web-based educative systems that can be automatically audited by means of standard web testing tools. The auditing tool...
Pilar Prieto Linillos, Sergio Gutiérrez San...
AH
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Automatic Generation of User Adapted Learning Designs: An AI-Planning Proposal
Abstract. A Learning Design(LD) definition under the IMS-LD standard is a complex task for the instructor because it requires a lot of time, effort and previous knowledge of the ...
Lluvia Morales, Luis A. Castillo, Juan Ferná...
AH
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Supporting Interaction Preferences and Recognition of Misconceptions with Independent Open Learner Models
Misconceptions have been identified in many subjects. However, there has been less investigation into students' interest in their misconceptions. This paper presents two indep...
Susan Bull, Andrew Mabbott, Peter Gardner, Tim Jac...
AH
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Scrutable User Modelling Infrastructure for Enabling Life-Long User Modelling
User Modelling is the core component for the majority of personalisation systems. By keeping a model for every user, a system can successfully personalise its content and utilise a...
Demetris Kyriacou
AH
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Do Students Trust Their Open Learner Models?
Open learner models (OLM) enable users to access their learner model to view information about their understanding. Opening the learner model to the learner may increase their perc...
Norasnita Ahmad, Susan Bull
AH
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Concept-Based Document Recommendations for CiteSeer Authors
The information explosion in today’s electronic world has created the need for information filtering techniques that help users filter out extraneous content to identify the righ...
Kannan Chandrasekaran, Susan Gauch, Praveen Lakkar...