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This paper reports the results of a comparison-based empirical study on the applicability of the end-user Quality of Experience-based content adaptation mechanism in adaptive educational hypermedia. The focus of the paper will be the experiment itself: the initial settings, testing scenarios and the results. We will show that for low bit rate connections the QoE-based adaptation decreases study session time, information processing time per page and the number of re-visits to a page, it maintains similar learning outcomes while also improving the user quality of experience and satisfaction with the system. Finally we will comment on the results and interpret them.
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Muntean, C.H., McManis, J. (2006). The Value of QoE-Based Adaptation Approach in Educational Hypermedia: Empirical Evaluation. In: Wade, V.P., Ashman, H., Smyth, B. (eds) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. AH 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4018. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11768012_14
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