2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Tackling HCI Challenges of Creating Personalised, Pervasive Learning Ecosystems
Authors : Judy Kay, Bob Kummerfeld
Published in: Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This paper explores two classes of emerging technology that offer the promise to provide radically improved ways to support lifelong learning. We particularly focus on the human computer interaction (HCI) challenges that must be addressed if that promise is to be realised. One technology is
personalisation
, based on a
long term learner model
which captures the learner’s knowledge, preferences and other attributes. We discuss the roles of an
explicit learner model
that is a first class software entity, with APIs for programmers as well as effective user interfaces that can give users control over their model and its use. We present the PLUS framework that provides the infrastructure for personalised learning, and how its Accretion-Resolution representation supports both flexible reasoning for personalisation by programs and provides the foundation for users to control the whole personalisation process. We link the PLUS framework to a second class of technology, the fast-changing and increasingly ubiquitous
personal mobile devices
and the emerging
embedded surface computing devices
, such as tabletop and shared wall displays. We show how we have tackled several of the HCI challenges that are key to both these technologies.