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Using Effective Reading Speed to Integrate Adaptivity into Web-Based Learning

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Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2002)

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It has always been difficult to determine to what extent a user has read a page especially in the area of educational adaptive hypermedia systems. We propose the use of an individual’s effective reading speed to estimate how much of a page a user has read during their browsing activity. This method is currently used to apply history-based link annotation in a medical web-based learning application, JointZone. A validation test of this work has shown a positive result in approximating user’s reading value when compared to conventional methods.

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  1. Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Research, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK

    Muan Hong Ng & Wendy Hall

  2. Center of Learning and Teaching, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK

    Pat Maier

  3. Rheumatology Unit Mail Point 78, Southampton General Hospital, SO16 6YD, Southampton, UK

    Ray Armstrong

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  1. School of Information Sciences Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh, 135 North Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Peter Brusilovsky

  2. Department of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Einhoven, The Netherlands

    Paul De Bra

  3. Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros en Informatica Departamento de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computacion, Universidad de Málaga, Boulevard Luis Pasteur, 35, Málaga, Spain

    Ricardo Conejo

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Ng, M.H., Hall, W., Maier, P., Armstrong, R. (2002). Using Effective Reading Speed to Integrate Adaptivity into Web-Based Learning. In: De Bra, P., Brusilovsky, P., Conejo, R. (eds) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. AH 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2347. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47952-X_53

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