User talk:InterfaceHistorian

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Talk about History of Automated Adaptive Instruction in Computer Applications
You raised a number of valid complaints on the initial version of this page, and we made changes in response to these complaints. How does it look now? Do you have suggestions for further changes? We are aware that the title is unpleasantly long, but the point is to distinguish this subfield of HCI from a broad, sprawling literature on adaptive instruction that has nothing to do with computer applications. Some of the present paragraphs are rather brief and do not well distinguish what was done in one project versus another, but I think that will solve itself as more people are informed of the existence of this page. -- IH
 * Something about the page just doesn't seem very encyclopedia-like. It's a great piece of writing, and I can tell you put a lot of hard work into writing it, and I can confidently thank you for that, but I'm not sure if it needs a separate article.  How about merging the contents into Human-computer interaction? — M ETS 501 (talk) 17:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)