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Adaptation in the Context of Explanatory Visualization

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Times of Convergence. Technologies Across Learning Contexts (EC-TEL 2008)

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Explanatory visualization is a promising approach that has been used in many tutoring systems. This paper presents an attempt to assess the value of adaptation in the context of explanatory visualization. It shows that a system employing a user model and tracking users’ progress gives students an opportunity to interact with larger amount of material in the same amount of time.

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

    Tomasz D. Loboda & Peter Brusilovsky

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Loboda, T.D., Brusilovsky, P. (2008). Adaptation in the Context of Explanatory Visualization. In: Dillenbourg, P., Specht, M. (eds) Times of Convergence. Technologies Across Learning Contexts. EC-TEL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5192. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87605-2_28

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