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Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development - ICTD '15, 2015
Abstract This paper presents the Open Annotation and Tagging System (OATS) which draws on previou... more Abstract This paper presents the Open Annotation and Tagging System (OATS) which draws on previous work in social navigation support, web annotations systems, collaborative tagging and educational metadata. The OATS system augments the text highlighting metaphor by providing a “collaborative tagging” and annotation interface which enables social navigation support. These tools aim to help learners in learning managements systems to better organize and navigate content.
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia / Hypermedia, 2008
Closed corpus AH systems demonstrate what is possible to achieve with adaptive hypermedia technol... more Closed corpus AH systems demonstrate what is possible to achieve with adaptive hypermedia technologies. However, they are impractical for dealing with the large volume of open corpus resources. Our Knowledge Sea project explores social navigation support, an approach for providing open corpus personalized guidance that is based on past learners’ interaction with the system. The most recent stage of our project focuses on using annotations for social navigation support. We present here Knowledge Sea II, which implements annotation-based social navigation support, and report the results of several classroom studies, which have evaluated this technology.
Jae-Kyung Kim School of Information Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA ki187cm@gmail... more Jae-Kyung Kim School of Information Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA ki187cm@gmail.com ... Rosta Farzan Intelligent Systems Program University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA rosta@cs.pitt.edu ... Peter Brusilovsky School of Information Science ...
Closed corpus AH systems demonstrate what is possible to achieve with adaptive hypermedia technol... more Closed corpus AH systems demonstrate what is possible to achieve with adaptive hypermedia technologies; however they are impractical for dealing with the large volume of open corpus resources. Our system, Knowledge Sea II, presented in this paper explores social adaptive navigation support, an approach for providing personalized guidance in the open corpus context. Following the ideas of social navigation, we have attempted to organize a personalized navigation support that is based on past learners’ interaction with the system. The social adaptive navigation support implemented in our system was considered quite useful by students participating in the classroom study of Knowledge Sea II. At the same time, some user comments indicated the need to provide more powerful navigation support.
Information Processing and Management, 2008
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development - ICTD '15, 2015
Abstract This paper presents the Open Annotation and Tagging System (OATS) which draws on previou... more Abstract This paper presents the Open Annotation and Tagging System (OATS) which draws on previous work in social navigation support, web annotations systems, collaborative tagging and educational metadata. The OATS system augments the text highlighting metaphor by providing a “collaborative tagging” and annotation interface which enables social navigation support. These tools aim to help learners in learning managements systems to better organize and navigate content.
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia / Hypermedia, 2008
Closed corpus AH systems demonstrate what is possible to achieve with adaptive hypermedia technol... more Closed corpus AH systems demonstrate what is possible to achieve with adaptive hypermedia technologies. However, they are impractical for dealing with the large volume of open corpus resources. Our Knowledge Sea project explores social navigation support, an approach for providing open corpus personalized guidance that is based on past learners’ interaction with the system. The most recent stage of our project focuses on using annotations for social navigation support. We present here Knowledge Sea II, which implements annotation-based social navigation support, and report the results of several classroom studies, which have evaluated this technology.
Jae-Kyung Kim School of Information Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA ki187cm@gmail... more Jae-Kyung Kim School of Information Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA ki187cm@gmail.com ... Rosta Farzan Intelligent Systems Program University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA rosta@cs.pitt.edu ... Peter Brusilovsky School of Information Science ...
Closed corpus AH systems demonstrate what is possible to achieve with adaptive hypermedia technol... more Closed corpus AH systems demonstrate what is possible to achieve with adaptive hypermedia technologies; however they are impractical for dealing with the large volume of open corpus resources. Our system, Knowledge Sea II, presented in this paper explores social adaptive navigation support, an approach for providing personalized guidance in the open corpus context. Following the ideas of social navigation, we have attempted to organize a personalized navigation support that is based on past learners’ interaction with the system. The social adaptive navigation support implemented in our system was considered quite useful by students participating in the classroom study of Knowledge Sea II. At the same time, some user comments indicated the need to provide more powerful navigation support.
Information Processing and Management, 2008