CourseQ: the impact of visual and interactive course recommendation in university environments

Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning

Shin’ichi Konomi¹  Min Lu¹  Boxuan Ma²  Yuta Taniguchi³ 

[1] Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University;Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University;Research Institute for Information Technology, Kyushu University;

关键词: Course recommendation;    University;    Interactive system;    Visualization;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s41039-021-00167-7

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract The abundance of courses available in a university often overwhelms students as they must select courses that are relevant to their academic interests and satisfy their requirements. A large number of existing studies in course recommendation systems focus on the accuracy of prediction to show students the most relevant courses with little consideration on interactivity and user perception. However, recent work has highlighted the importance of user-perceived aspects of recommendation systems, such as transparency, controllability, and user satisfaction. This paper introduces CourseQ, an interactive course recommendation system that allows students to explore courses by using a novel visual interface so as to improve transparency and user satisfaction of course recommendations. We describe the design concepts, interactions, and algorithm of the proposed system. A within-subject user study (N=32) was conducted to evaluate our system compared to a baseline interface without the proposed interactive visualization. The evaluation results show that our system improves many user-centric metrics including user acceptance and understanding of the recommendation results. Furthermore, our analysis of user interaction behaviors in the system indicates that CourseQ could help different users with their course-seeking tasks. Our results and discussions highlight the impact of visual and interactive features in course recommendation systems and inform the design of future recommendation systems for higher education.

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