A cognition-centered personalization framework for cultural-heritage content

DeCACHe: Supporting Designers in Creating Cognition-Centered Adaptive Cultural Heritage Activities

“…The findings of the aforementioned studies suggest the personalization of CH activities based on the cognitive profile of the end-users (e.g., museum visitors). Our recent works [12,13] provide evidence that we can build adaptive interventions which leverage visitors' cognitive profile to enhance their experience and improve their knowledge acquisition. Our cognition-centered personalization framework [13] aims to deliver CH activities tailored to the users' cognitive profile.…”

“…Our recent works [12,13] provide evidence that we can build adaptive interventions which leverage visitors' cognitive profile to enhance their experience and improve their knowledge acquisition. Our cognition-centered personalization framework [13] aims to deliver CH activities tailored to the users' cognitive profile. The results of two user-studies verified the applicability, effectiveness, and efficiency of the framework and underpinned the added value of adopting cognition-centered personalization interventions within digitized CH interaction contexts.…”

“…We also report a user study with seventeen professional CH designers, who used our tool to design CH activities for people with different cognitive characteristics.Cognition-centered personalization framework for CH content. In our recent work [13], we presented a framework that helps CH stakeholders (e.g., CH designers, CH institutions, CH educators) in providing personalized CH activities to the visitors through adaptive interventions that leverage the visitors' cognitive profiles. The framework consists of three stages: (a) the design of personalized CH activities; (b) the visitor modeling based on selected cognitive factors; and (c) the configuration and delivery of the personalized CH activity to the visitor.…”

“…The cognitive profiles are built dynamically through real-time modeling based on users' behavioral data (e.g., eye-tracking data, interaction data). The results of three user-studies [12,13] revealed that the visitors who used the cognition-adapted CH activities had an enhanced experience and an improved knowledge acquisition in comparison to the visitors who used the original CH activities. However, we should stress that the configuration of the framework required the modification of technical details that our research team was aware of, but they can be a burden for non-technical CH stakeholders, such as designers.…”

“…Focusing on research attempts that aim to create tools that support the design of personalized CH activities, Androutsopoulos et al [38] presented an authoring tool that generates multilingual personalized descriptions of museum exhibits; Konstantopoulos et al [39] presented an authoring environment for creating abstract semantic representations of CH object descriptions tailored to the profile of the audience; Not and Petrelli [40] recently presented the meSch authoring tool that supports CH designers in creating personalized and interactive CH experiences for visitors in diverse CH settings; Ardito et al [41] presented a visual composition paradigm that allows non-technical CH professionals to manage ecosystems of interoperable smart objects and synchronize their behavior to create enhanced visit experiences; Katifori et al [42] presented a tool that enables CH content providers and experts to create personalized and dynamically adaptive digital narratives, based on visitors' profile (e.g., interests, visiting behavior), in archaeological sites. While the aforementioned research attempts support CH designers in creating personalized CH activities, they do not take into consideration the cognition factor, which is an important personalization factor for CH [13] and other domains [14]. Research attempts in other domains, such as education [43,44] that enable creators to incorporate cognition factors in their applications, motivate us to build a tool for supporting CH designers in creating cognition-centered personalized CH activities.…”