Enhancing the learning experience: Preliminary framework for user individual differences

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

Volumn 6389 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 384-399

  Granić, Andrina ^a   Nakić, Jelena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

User experience; user individual differences; user modelling; web based learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTABLE SYSTEM; ADAPTIVE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS; BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXISTING SYSTEMS; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; LEARNING OUTCOME; PERSONAL LEARNING; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; USER ANALYSIS; USER CHARACTERISTICS; USER EXPERIENCE; USER MODELLING; WEB BASED LEARNING;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; E-LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 78649959854     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16607-5_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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