Adaptive interactive systems

Course goals

Upon completion of this course, the student is able to:

• analyze and explain the need for adaptation
• choose user, context, group characteristics to model
• decide how to model these, critically analyzing the (dis)advantages of using different techniques
• design adaptation mechanisms, critically analyzing the (dis) advantages of using different techniques
• explain and show the user experience of an adaptive system
• model the implementation of an adaptive system
• consider quality aspects of an adaptive system and decide which to focus on and how to measure those
• evaluate an adaptive system
• reflect on privacy and ethical issues

Assessment
This course is assessed via two assignments (group work) and a final exam (individual work).

The three parts of the assessment contribute to the final grade as follows:

• assignment 1: written group assignment (35% of the final mark)
• assignment 2: group presentation (15%)
• final individual exam (50%).

More details on the assignments is provided in Brightspace.

A peer effort assessment will be used to allocate individual marks for the two group assignments.

To pass the course each of the three parts of the assessment has to be >=5.5.
Note, for the group assignments, the mark after the effort assessment has been taken into account needs to be >=5.5.

To qualify for a repair of the final result the mark needs to be at least a 4, or “AANV”.

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