Adaptation languages as vehicles of explicit intelligence in Adaptive Hypermedia

International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning

Volumn 17, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 319-336

  Stash, Natalia ^a   Cristea, Alexandra I ^b   De Bra, Paul ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptive hypermedia; AH; authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia; learning styles; LS; plug and play intelligence; user modelling

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA; LEARNING STYLES; PLUG-AND-PLAY INTELLIGENCE;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 40249113156     PISSN: 15604624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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33. Procedures are new language constructs extending the language.
34. The idea behind it is simple yet semantically significant: it is based on computer games, where a player has to collect a number of items to advance between levels. This number may be fixed, but the choice of which items to select is up to him.
35. PM stands for Presentation Model in LAOS.
36. In AHA! there can be different types of concepts, e.g., abstract, page or object (fragment) concepts. Abstract concepts do not have a resource associated with it. Page concept can have one or more associated resources. Fragment concepts should be included into pages; they can have multiple resources, however they represent alternative versions of a part of a page. These resources are well-formed documents, to be scanned by the AHA! engine for other recursively included objects. Therefore they do not have a header and cannot be viewed separately.
37. A pseudo-concept created when a user first logs into the system, storing user information such as name, login, password. As all concepts in AHA!, it can have arbitrary attributes. It can be used to specify attributes reflecting the learning style.
38. The ‘strange’ escape sequences & > and < in the XML file are needed because the XML parser will translate them to &, > and <. Without the escaping the XML parser would interpret, instead of translating them.
39. Children of this concept have an attribute ‘media’.