Accessible and adaptive e-Learning materials: Considerations for design and development

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4556 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages 549-558

  Debevc, Matjaž ^a   Stjepanovič, Zoran ^a   Povalej, Petra ^a   Verlič, Mateja ^a   Kokol, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Adaptive user interfaces; e Learning; Evaluation; People with special needs; Usability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; USER INTERFACES;

ADAPTIVE USER INTERFACES; PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 38149077256     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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