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Graz University of Technology
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, Ebner, Taraghi, Altmann U2X-4-PLE, 11.07.2011
The World of Widgets – An Important Step Towards a
Personalized Learning Environment
Martin Ebner, Behnam Taraghi, Thomas Altmann
Graz University of Technology
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, Ebner, Taraghi, Altmann U2X-4-PLE, 11.07.2011
http://ple.tugraz.at
Mashup of
widgets
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, Ebner, Taraghi, Altmann U2X-4-PLE, 11.07.2011
HCI Tests
- Heuristik Evaluations- Thinking Aloud Tests- Expert Test Users- Test Users from Different Field of Studies
- Technical and non-technical fields
- Interviews & Questionnaires
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Usability and UX
- Personalization in foreground- E.g. own desktop background image, look & feel etc.
- Different UI structures & themes
- Total control of own environment is desired!
- Resemblance btw. Real and virtual world- More than one Personal Desktop vs. An unlimited Desktop
- Free widget arrangement on UI
- Flexible widget dimensions
- Drag & Drop effects vs. simple clicks
- Sharing, collaboration, networking
- Ubiquitous PLE- Mobile and desktop views
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, Ebner, Taraghi, Altmann U2X-4-PLE, 11.07.2011
Interviews & Questionnaires
- PLE Concept (What)- Unknown to all test users
- PLE Workflow (How)- Not easy to get started with
- Due to unfamiliar concept
- Introduction, tutorials for novel users strongly recommended
- PLE Competences- Self-organization
- Self-cognition
- ….
A Change from Teacher-Controlled to Coaching needed!
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Selection Mechanisms*
Stabilizing Selection:- Favorites the average.- Decrease of variability within the population.
*Solbrig O.T. (1970). Principles and Methods of Plant Biosystematics. The Mac-Millan Company. Collier-Mac Millan Limited, London.*Solbrig O.T. & D.J Solbrig. (1979). Populationbiology and evolution. Addision-Wesley. Publ. Co. Reading Mass.
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r/K Selection Theory*Tradeoff btw. quantity & quality of offspring
In long term K-strategy is superior.Quality succeeds in long run over quantity.
r-Strategy (quantity)- Succeeds in unpredictable, unknown environments.- High reproduction rate – short lifespan
K-Strategy (quality)- Succeeds in predictable, known environments.- Constant growth, ruled by population density & env. capacity- Usually close to the max. capacity- Slower adaptation – longer lifespan
In PLE a mixed approach is applied.
*Pianka E.R. (1970). On r and K selection. American naturalist 104, 592-597.*MacArthur, R. and Wilson, E.O. (1967). The Theory of Island Biography, Princeton University Press (2001 reprint).
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, Ebner, Taraghi, Altmann U2X-4-PLE, 11.07.2011
VariationsShift in genotypes or generic sequence
- Mutation:- Random process aiming at generation of new alternatives- Ex. change in DNA structure- Continuously happening
- Recombination:- Not random process- Combining & distributing genetic materials (DNA, RNA)
The Evolution never stops.In PLE: slight update of existing functionality or UI
In PLE: combining widgets to build new ones
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, Ebner, Taraghi, Altmann U2X-4-PLE, 11.07.2011
Selections and Variations
- Following r/K strategy towards stabilizing selection- Producing quantitative widgets
- Increasing the quality
- Mutation- slight update of the functionality and UI
- Recombination- Combining two widgets to build new functionalities
- Combining code of different widgets to build new ones- Using IWC to realize new use cases
- Widgets are developed by users- According to their needs and interests
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, Ebner, Taraghi, Altmann U2X-4-PLE, 11.07.2011
Implicit / Explicit Knowledge
- Tracking module helps- To get knowledge about user behavior
- To get user preferences
- To categorize different user groups
- Improve the PLE with variations & selections
- Implicit feedback for a recommender system within PLE
- Missing qualitative data- Qualitative rating system is needed in PLE
- Small feedback questionnaire for each widget
- Explicit feedback system
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, Ebner, Taraghi, Altmann U2X-4-PLE, 11.07.2011
Tracking module in PLE
-Tracks users’ behavior on widgets- Deep retrieve of statistics data
- Frequency of widgets usage- Features used in each widget
- Realized via IWC
- App. 1000 users registered up to now.- App. 30% active users- Top 5 most used widgets out of 30:
- tugWidget, tccourses, tugllBlogs, mail, changeThemeColor- Top 5 most activated widgets:
- weatherForcast, RSSReader, twitter, TUGLibrary, leoDictionary- weatherForcast & newsgroup are improved according to K-strategy
Most activated widgets are not necessarily most used ones
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, Ebner, Taraghi, Altmann U2X-4-PLE, 11.07.2011
Ubiquitous PLE
- A step towards more personalization- Every where, every when- Mobile PLE
- Smart phones (on roadmap)
- Desktop PLE- Windows 7, Mac OS X (ongoing work)
- (W3C => Desktop) Widget converter
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, Ebner, Taraghi, Altmann U2X-4-PLE, 11.07.2011
PLE Web View => Desktop Widgets
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, Ebner, Taraghi, Altmann U2X-4-PLE, 11.07.2011
SOCIAL LEARNING
http://tugraz.at
http://elearning.tugraz.at
Slides available at: http://www.slideshare.net/mebner
martin.ebner(at)tugraz.at