Title: A method for modelling adaptive interactions in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Authors: Luciana B. Frigo, Janette Cardoso, Guilherme Bittencourt

Addresses: DAS – UFSC, CP 476 Campus Universitario, 88040-900 Florianopolis SC, Brasil. ' IRIT-UT1, 21 Allees de Brienne, 31042 Toulouse, France. ' DAS – UFSC, CP 476 Campus Universitario, 88040-900 Florianopolis SC, Brasil

Abstract: This paper proposes a method to couple the domain, student and pedagogical models in an Intelligent Tutoring System. The goal of the proposed method is to produce a personalised version of the domain model with respect to the student model, without burdening the teacher with the task of specifying how this personalisation is to be done. The pedagogical model is defined through Object Petri Net, whose transitions control the interaction decisions, according to conditions that refer to the student model and feedback. All student model management is automatically included in the pedagogical model by the authoring tool.

Keywords: intelligent tutoring systems; ontology; object Petri nets; user interaction; adaptive hypermedia systems; web-based education; e-learning; online learning; interaction modelling; personalisation; authoring tools.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCEELL.2007.015049

International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning, 2007 Vol.17 No.4/5, pp.381 - 391

Published online: 06 Sep 2007 *

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