ADAPTS: Towards Adaptive Web-based Performance Support Systems

Speaker
Peter Brusilovsky
Assistant Professor, Information Science and Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

Electronic Performance Support Systems is a new and challenging area for application of user modeling and adaptive hypermedia techniques. Some possible scenarios for using adaptive hypermedia for adaptive performance support were explored in the context of the Adaptive Diagnostics and Personalized Technical Support (ADAPTS) project supported by the Office of Naval Research. The goal of the project was to develop an innovative system that can work on a mobile computer and provide a comprehensive workplace-level support for a technician maintaining complex equipment. ADAPTS extends and integrates together two existing approaches to developing advanced performance support systems: the expert system approach that relies on computer intelligence and electronic technical manual (IETM) approach that appeals to human intelligence. Another innovation is an ability to adapt to an individual technician. ADAPTS maintains a dynamic characterization of a technician’s knowledge, experience, and preferences in the form of a user model. This model influences the diagnostic strategy, the information shown on a display, and navigation support offered to a technician.

Speaker's Bio

Peter Brusilovsky is an Assistant Professor of Information Science and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also an adjunct research scientist at HCII. He received his MS degree (1983, Applied Mathematics) and Ph.D. degree (1987, Computer Science) from the Moscow State University. In 1996–1998 he was a visiting research scientist at HCII working with Professor John Anderson on the project “Creating more versatile intelligent learning environments on the basis of cognitive analysis of knowledge being learned” supported by McDonnell Foundation. He was also holding visiting researcher/professor appointments at Sussex University (UK), Tokyo Denki University (Japan), and University of Trier (Germany). He is a recipient of the British Royal Society Fellowship and the German Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.

Peter Brusilovsky’s research interests include Adaptive Interfaces, Adaptive Hypermedia, Adaptive Tutoring, Student and User Modeling, and Adaptive Web-based Systems. He is an editor of several books and special issues on adaptive hypermedia and adaptive Web-based systems.

Speaker's Website
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~peterb/