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Current Game-based Learning (GBL) applications often lack features that have been commonplace in conventional e-learning. One of these is the ability to provide players with a personalised experience. The author’s dissertation aims at further establishing adaptivity in GBL as a practical feature through three contributions: An adaptive educational game that fulfills key demands for GBL; an architecture that adapts at runtime according to authored references; and a controlled trial to evaluate effects of adaptivity in a statistically sound way.
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Berger, F. (2012). Evaluating an Implementation of an Adaptive Game-Based Learning Architecture. In: Masthoff, J., Mobasher, B., Desmarais, M.C., Nkambou, R. (eds) User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. UMAP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7379. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31454-4_34
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