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Adaptive hypermedia through contextualized open hypermedia structures

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Christopher Bailey,

David E. Millard,

Mark J. WealAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 25, Issue 4

Pages 16 - es

https://doi.org/10.1145/1281485.1281487

Published: 01 October 2007 Publication History

Abstract

The aim of this article is to produce an alternative view of the adaptive hypermedia (AH) domain from a contextually-aware open hypermedia (OH) perspective. We believe that a wide range of AH techniques can be supported with a small number of OH structures, which can be combined together to create more complex effects, possibly simplifying the development of new AH systems.

In this work we reexamine Brusilovsky's taxonomy of AH techniques from a structural OH perspective. We also show that it is possible to identify and model common structures across the taxonomy of adaptive techniques. An agent-based adaptive hypermedia system called HA³L is presented, which uses these OH structures to provide a straightforward implementation of a variety of adaptive hypermedia techniques. This enables us to reflect on the structural equivalence of many of the techniques, demonstrates the advantages of the OH approach, and can inform the design of future adaptive hypermedia systems.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1080/13614560902801608
Medina-Medina NGarcía-Cabrera L(2016)A taxonomy for user models in adaptive systems: special considerations for learning environmentsThe Knowledge Engineering Review10.1017/S026988891600003531:2(124-141)Online publication date: 4-Apr-2016
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888916000035
Francisco-Revilla LCrow JCattuto CRuffo GMenczer F(2009)Interpreting the layout of web pagesProceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia10.1145/1557914.1557943(157-166)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1557914.1557943

Index Terms

Adaptive hypermedia through contextualized open hypermedia structures
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Multi / mixed media creation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia

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ACM Transactions on Information Systems Volume 25, Issue 4

October 2007

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Knutov EDe Bra PPechenizkiy M(2018)AH 12 years laterThe New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia10.1080/1361456090280160815:1(5-38)Online publication date: 14-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1080/13614560902801608
Medina-Medina NGarcía-Cabrera L(2016)A taxonomy for user models in adaptive systems: special considerations for learning environmentsThe Knowledge Engineering Review10.1017/S026988891600003531:2(124-141)Online publication date: 4-Apr-2016
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888916000035
Francisco-Revilla LCrow JCattuto CRuffo GMenczer F(2009)Interpreting the layout of web pagesProceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia10.1145/1557914.1557943(157-166)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1557914.1557943

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