Project Description
There is a huge amount of personalised web content.
Yet, in general, there is no easy way for a person to scrutinise the personalisation,
to determine what has been personalised and why.
So, for example, if the personalisation is bizarre, there is no way to determine why this happened.
SASY explores how to give users the ability to scrutinise the personalisation of web content by
providing a framework for creating and delivering what we call scrutably personalised web content.
In a series of usability studies, we refined the scrutability tools.
In a large scale field trial, we observed how learners chose to make use of these tools.
Notably, they played a role in supporting reflection, an important metacognitive skills.
Key Publications
M. Czarkowski and J. Kay. Giving learners a real sense of control over adaptivity, even if they are not quite ready for it yet, pages 93-125. IDEA Information Science Publishing, Hershey, PA, USA, 2006. [View Details]
M. Czarkowski, J. Kay, and S. Potts. Web framework for scrutable adaptation. In Online Proceedings of the AIED (Artificial Intelligence in Education) 2005 Workshop on Learner Modelling for Reflection, to Support Learner Control, Metacognition and Improved Communication between Teachers and Learners (LeMoRe05), pages 11-18, 2005. [View Details]
M. Czarkowski, J. Kay, and S. Potts. Scrutability as a core interface element. In Proceedings of AIED 2005, Artificial Intelligence in Education, pages 783-785, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005. IOS Press. [View Details]
M. Czarkowski and J. Kay. How to give the user a sense of control over the personalization of adaptive hypertext? In P. de Bra, H. Davis, and J. Kay, editors, Online Proceedings of AH2003, Workshop on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, pages 121-132, 2003. [View Details]
M. Czarkowski and J. Kay. Challenges of scrutable adaptivity. In U. Hoppe, F. Verdejo, and J. Kay, editors, Proceedings of AIED 2003, 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, pages 404-407. IOS Press (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 2003. [View Details]
M. Czarkowski and J. Kay. A scrutable adaptive hypertext. In P. D. Bra, P. Brusilovsky, and R. Conejo, editors, Proceedings of AH 2002, 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, volume 2347 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 384-387. Springer-Verlag (Berlin, Heidelberg), 2002. [View Details]
M. Czarkowski and J. Kay. Tutor: support for scrutably personalised documents. In A. M. Vercoustre and J. Kay, editors, ADCS'2001, Australian Document Computing Symposium (Proceedings), pages 29 - 36, 2001. [View Details]
M. Czarkowski and J. Kay. Bringing scrutability to adaptive hypertext teaching. In G. Gauthier, C. Frasson, and K. VanLehn, editors, ITS'2000 (Intelligent Tutoring Systems) (Proceedings), pages 423 - 432, 2000. [View Details]
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