Personalizing University Email toward User Acceptance: An Initial Study

Alwagadani, Bshaer; Alomar, Khalid

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“…The initial experiment was carried out using qualitative and quantitative research designs to resolve conflicting findings. By designing some personalized features that had been assessed from the users' point of view in the previous survey (Alwagadani & Alomar, 2017), and evaluating them by creating a scenario of regular daily tasks for students in different levels of complexity, we have collected clear results from the two environments. To be specific, we measured efficiency by using metrics such as time to accomplish tasks and frequency of errors, whereas effectiveness was measured by calculating the number of subjects completing all tasks and the number of tasks completed successfully within task criterion times.…”

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Increasing Student Engagement with Personalized Emails

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Alomar²

2020

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Despite a large number of studies in personalizing e-learning systems, only a few sufficiently cover the impact of personalization on university emails. Either universities impose the use of university email or students are reluctant to use it. For instance, It was found that at King Abdulaziz University only 23% of students were using the university email to communicate regularly, unlike the faculty members, who showed an 80% commitment. However, this paper attempts to investigate the effect of applying different personalized systems on the university email and whether using adaptation and adaptability techniques in the university email will cover the huge gap between the university and its members. Specifically, frameworks were built to evaluate the efficiency, frequency of error occurrence, effectiveness, and user satisfaction in each experiment. We focused on testing the usability of personalized email against the existing university email and then evaluate which approach (adaptive, adaptable, or mixed-initiative) is more favorable to personalize the university email. These were conducted and evaluated using 40 subjects. Interestingly, results show that subjects with personalized emails were most efficient and satisfied as well as errors were reduced by 42%. Furthermore, significant differences were found between the three approaches (adaptive, adaptable, and mixed-initiative), and the adaptive approach was the most preferred by the respondents. A set of empirically derived guidelines was also discussed as a basis for developing a suitable university email structure.

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confidence: 99%