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Chapter 4
INTRODUCTION
The growing amount of information on the WEB
and the heterogeneous characteristics of Web us-
ers have lead to a considerable attention to web-
based adaptive hypermedia systems (WAHS)
by the research community (Brusilovsky, 1996,
2001). The power of hypermedia of web tech-
nology is in its capability to support non-linear
navigation in hyperspace and multimedia pre-
sentation of the web content. WAHS offers an
alternative to the traditional “one-size-fits-all”
hypermedia and Web systems by adapting to the
goals, interests, and knowledge of individual
Ilham N. Huseyinov
European University of Lefke, Turkey
Fuzzy Linguistic Modelling
in Multi Modal Human
Computer Interaction:
Adaptation to Cognitive Styles using
Multi Level Fuzzy Granulation Method
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to explore fuzzy logic based methodology for computing an adaptive inter-
face in an environment of imperfect, vague, multimodal, complex nonlinear hyper information space. To
this end, based on fuzzy linguistic modelling and fuzzy multi level granulation an adaptation strategy to
cognitive/learning styles is presented. The granulated fuzzy if-then rules are utilized to adaptively map
cognitive/learning styles of users to their information navigation and presentation preferences through
natural language expressions. The important implications of this approach are that, frst, uncertain and
vague information is handled; second, a mechanism for approximate adaptation at a variety of granu-
lation levels is provided; third, a qualitative linguistic model of adaptation is presented. The proposed
approach is close to human reasoning and thereby lowers the cost of solution, and facilitates the design
of human computer interaction systems with high level intelligence capability.
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0954-9.ch004