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ALAT: Finally an Easy To Use Adaptation Authoring Tool

Authors:

Wouter Boereboom,

Joris Den Ouden,

Martijn Kunstman,

Egon VerbakelAuthors Info & Claims

HT '16: Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

Pages 213 - 218

https://doi.org/10.1145/2914586.2914627

Published: 10 July 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Research papers about adaptive hypermedia systems, frameworks or applications tend to focus on the end-result: how the applications are used by end-users, how adaptation improves user satisfaction, learning, etc. What they do not describe is how difficult and labor-intensive the creation of the applications can be. In this paper we present ALAT, a new authoring tool for the Generic Adaptation Language and Engine GALE, developed at the TU/e. ALAT is specifically designed in close collaboration with an educational software company to ensure that specifying the desired adaptation can be done by non-technical authors. This is achieved by combining a simple responsive authoring-interface with underlying templates that help generate the adaptation code for GALE.

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Kitromili SJordan JMillard DAtzenbeck CRubart JMillard D(2019)What is Hypertext Authoring?Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media10.1145/3342220.3343653(55-59)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2019
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97934-2_4

Index Terms

ALAT: Finally an Easy To Use Adaptation Authoring Tool
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interactive systems and tools
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
    2. Web interfaces

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HT '16: Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

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DOI:10.1145/2914586

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Dalhousie University, Canada
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OWL University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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University of South Australia

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Kitromili SJordan JMillard DAtzenbeck CRubart JMillard D(2019)What is Hypertext Authoring?Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media10.1145/3342220.3343653(55-59)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3342220.3343653
Paiva RBittencourt I(2018)Helping MOOC Teachers Do Their JobHigher Education for All. From Challenges to Novel Technology-Enhanced Solutions10.1007/978-3-319-97934-2_4(52-67)Online publication date: 4-Aug-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97934-2_4

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