AnAmeter: The First Steps to Evaluating Adaptation

Franck Tarpin Bernard (1) , Iza Marfisi-Schottman (1) , Halima Habieb-Mammar (2)

1 LIESP - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour l'Entreprise et les Systèmes de Production
2 ICTT - Interaction Collaborative, Teleformation, Teleactivites

This paper presents the online AnAmeter framework that helps characterize the different types of adaptations a system features by helping the evaluator fill in a simple form. The provided information is then processed to obtain a quantitative evaluation of three parameters called global, semi-global and local adaptation degrees. By characterizing and quantifying adaptation, AnAmeter provides the first steps towards the evaluation of the quality of a system's adaptation. AnAmeter is an open tool available as freeware on the web and has been applied to a selection of well known systems. To build this evaluation grid we also collected a number of systems that cover the full range of adaptation types.

Mots clés: adaptation degree; evaluating adaptation; adaptivity; adaptability; characterization; quantification

Domaines: Informatique mobile; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Education; Autre [cs.OH]

Franck Tarpin Bernard, Iza Marfisi-Schottman, Halima Habieb-Mammar. AnAmeter: The First Steps to Evaluating Adaptation. Sixth Workshop on User-Centred Design and Evaluation of Adaptive Systems, UMAP09 User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, Jun 2009, Trento, Italy. pp.11 -20. ⟨hal-00433300⟩