Simulation of fuzzy adaptation of cognitive/learning styles to user navigation/presentation preferences by using MATLAB

Year 2014, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 701 - 712, 01.06.2014

Ilham N. Husyınov

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a simulation methodology of a fuzzy adaptive interface in an environment of imperfect, multimodal, complex nonlinear hyper information space. A fuzzy adaptation of user’s information navigation and presentation preferences to cognitive/learning styles is simulated by using MATLAB. To this end, fuzzy if-then rules in natural language expressions are utilized. The important implications of this approach is that uncertain and vague information is handled and the design of human computer interaction system is facilitated with high level intelligence capability.

Keywords

adaptive interface, fuzzy logic, cognitive/learning styles, navigation/presentation preferences, linguistic modelling

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