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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Adaptation of hypermedia systems to each individual user is increasingly needed. With the growing size, complexity and heterogeneity of current hypermedia systems, such as the World Wide Web, it becomes virtually impossible to impose guidelines on authors concerning the overall organization of hypermedia information. The networks therefore become so complex and unstructured that the existing navigational tools are no longer powerful enough to provide orientation on where to search for the needed information. It is also not possible to identify appropriate pre-defined paths or subnets for users with certain goals and knowledge backgrounds since the user community of hypermedia systems is usually quite inhomogeneous. This is particularly true for Web-based applications which are expected to be used by a much greater variety of users than any earlier standalone application.
A possible remedy for the negative effects of the traditional `one-size-fits-all' approach in the development of hypermedia systems is to equip them with the ability to adapt to the needs of their individual users. A possible way of achieving adaptivity is by modeling the users and tailoring the system's interactions to theirgoals, tasks and interests. In this sense, the notion of adaptive hypertext/hypermedia comes naturally to denote a hypertext or hypermedia system which reflects some features of the user and/or characteristics of his system usage in a user model, and utilizes this model in order to adapt various behavioral aspects of the system to the user.
This book is the first comprehensive publication on adaptive hypertext and hypermedia. It is oriented towards researchers and practitioners in the fields of hypertext and hypermedia, information systems, and personalized systems. It is also an important resource for the numerous developers of Web-based applications. The design decisions, adaptation methods, and experience presented in this book are a unique source of ideas and techniques for developing more usable and more intelligent Web-based systems suitable for a great variety of users. The practitioners will find it important that many of the adaptation techniques presented in this book have proved to be efficient and are ready to be used in various applications.
Editors and Affiliations
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Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Peter Brusilovsky
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German National Research Centre for Information Technology, GMD FIT, Germany
Alfred Kobsa
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University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Julita Vassileva
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia
Editors: Peter Brusilovsky, Alfred Kobsa, Julita Vassileva
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0617-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4843-6Published: 28 February 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4944-5Published: 01 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0617-9Published: 17 April 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 252
Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Multimedia Information Systems, Information Storage and Retrieval