ADEThe Adaptive Display EnvironmentTuesday January 31st 2012

Joshua Scotton, Jonathan Foss, Alexandra Cristea

Outline• The Adaptive Display Environment (ADE) • Adaptation Strategies• From MOT to ADE (Coursework)

ADE• Adaptive Display Environment• Supports import of the CAF format and

LAG strategy language• Written in Java and uses Tomcat

Display

Administration

Adaptation Strategies• You can download a zip file of example

strategies from:

http://ade.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/LAG4-Examples.zip

Content Adaptation Examples

• Visual/Verbal• RollOut• Type Based (BegIntAdv)

Navigation Adaptation Examples

• Depth First, Breadth First• Hide after Multiple Accesses• Unlabelled First• Relation Based• Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced• Positions• View and Move

Layout Adaptation Examples

• Switch Sides Layout• Text Layout

From MOT to ADE

Coursework 1.3• Create two adaptive online lessons• Create content in MOT• Test content in ADE

• DeadlineThursday 9th of February, 12:00 Noon

jscotton@dcs.warwick.ac.ukjonny@dcs.warwick.ac.uk

Questions

Selection of Media Items

Visual style• Diagrams• Illustrations• Graphs• Flowcharts• Animations+ audio

Verbal style• More text• Possibly audio

Providing navigation paths

Sequential style

Linear step-by-step learning process

Global styleGlobal overview first, then

details