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Articulation of information requirements for personalised knowledge and construction

Sun, L. and Ousmanou, K. (2006) Articulation of information requirements for personalised knowledge and construction. Journal of Requirements Engineering, 11 (4). pp. 279-293.

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1007/s00766-006-0031-z

Abstract/Summary

The quality of information provision influences considerably knowledge construction driven by individual users’ needs. In the design of information systems for e-learning, personal information requirements should be incorporated to determine a selection of suitable learning content, instructive sequencing for learning content, and effective presentation of learning content. This is considered as an important part of instructional design for a personalised information package. The current research reveals that there is a lack of means by which individual users’ information requirements can be effectively incorporated to support personal knowledge construction. This paper presents a method which enables an articulation of users’ requirements based on the rooted learning theories and requirements engineering paradigms. The user’s information requirements can be systematically encapsulated in a user profile (i.e. user requirements space), and further transformed onto instructional design specifications (i.e. information space). These two spaces allow the discovering of information requirements patterns for self-maintaining and self-adapting personalisation that enhance experience in the knowledge construction process.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Computer Science
ID Code:15390
Uncontrolled Keywords:Requirements articulation - Personalised information provision - Knowledge construction - User profiling - Information space

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