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Step-based ITS have been proven successful in well-defined domains, but their success is mitigated by their cost. Different approaches have been investigated to reduce these efforts; one of them is a framework that eases the development of tutors for a given class of task domains. In this paper, we explain how a domain is modeled with the ASTUS framework and we discuss why an authoring language is a promising technique to improve its usability.
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Lebeau, JF., Paquette, L., Fortin, M., Mayers, A. (2010). An Authoring Language as a Key to Usability in a Problem-Solving ITS Framework. In: Aleven, V., Kay, J., Mostow, J. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6095. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13437-1_30
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