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Title:
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ASSESSMENT OF USER RATIONALITY AND ADAPTIVITY: A CASE STUDY |
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Author(s):
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Effie Lai-chong Law , Borka Jerman Blazic |
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ISBN:
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972-98947-7-9 |
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Editors:
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Kinshuk, Demetrios Sampson and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2004 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Mental models, situated cognition, task variant, e-learning platform. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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404 |
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Last Page:
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408 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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The paper presents the results of an empirical study on users behaviors when they were asked to perform a task and its variant in a usability test. Specific focus was set on assessing the users rationality and adaptivity. The system tested was a multilingual e-Learning platform. 7 German and 3 Slovenian users were employed. Video-recordings of the two isomorphic tasks were segmented and coded. Results show that the users were rational and adaptive. |
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