An Adaptive Hypermedia System Integrating Thinking Style (AHS-TS) Model and Experiment
Résumé
This paper presents an approach to integrate thinking styles into adaptive hypermedia
system. The main objective was to develop an adaptive system and assess the effect of
adapting pedagogical activities individualized to the student’s thinking style. The proposed
approach used adaptive hypermedia technology to improve learning process by adapting
course content presentation to student thinking styles. The design of adaptive hypermedia is
based on quantitative and qualitative research. The adaptation rules are deduced from the
results of a psychological questionnaire. Pedagogical activities are the outcome of a series of
inferences; the final activity sets are manifested in adaptive hypermedia system. Stereotype
user model is used to cluster all possible users into groups, providing mapping from a
specific combination of user features to one of the stereotypes. Our approach is inspired by
HBDI® model, focusing on the perspective of learner, meeting the needs of an adaptive
hypermedia system.