The evaluation of interactive adaptive systems has long been acknowledged to be a
complicated and demanding endeavour. Some promising approaches in the recent past …

This article presents an affective-based sensemaking system for grouping and suggesting
stories created by the users about the cultural artefacts in a museum. By relying on the TCL …

Despite a lack of consensus on the nature of Computing Research Methods (CRM), a
growing number of programs are exploring models and content for CRM courses. This report …

Personalised environments such as adaptive educational systems can be evaluated and
compared using performance curves. Such summative studies are useful for determining …

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of a nonconventional topic-based personalization
approach for adaptive educational systems (AES) that we have explored for a number of …

The ultimate goal of adaptive educational hypermedia systems (AEHS) is to provide a
learning experience that is individualized to the particular needs of the learners, from the …

This chapter discusses a usability engineering approach for the design and the evaluation of
adaptive web-based systems, focusing on practical issues. A list of methods will be …

There is no doubt that the Internet and its most-popular service World Wide Web have
changed our everyday lives. Especially the Web has become an ubiquitous source of …

Various e-learning systems that provide electronic textbooks are gathering data on large
numbers of student reading interactions. This data can potentially be used to model student …

User testing tends to put participants in the role of the user. To evaluate complex systems
(such as adaptive systems), a Wizard-of-Oz study may be used, where the role of the system …