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Personalized Educational Hypermedia

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Definition:Enabling technologies that support the personalization of Web-based applications include technologies for user profiling, intelligent search, filtering and recommendation of hypermedia contents, adaptive hypermedia, tracking and characterization of user browsing behaviors, and adaptive user interface.

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The emergence of personalization technologies on the Web allows customized information to be delivered to users according to their pertinent needs and interests as perceived by the system. Enabling technologies that support the personalization of web-based applications include technologies for user profiling, intelligent search, filtering and recommendation of hypermedia contents, adaptive hypermedia, tracking and characterization of user browsing behaviors, and adaptive user interface. In order to boost the commercial advantages and to retain internet-based customers’ loyalties, personalization technologies have been adopted and driven predominantly by e-commerce...

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  1. Sun Centre of Excellence on Pervasive Computing Centre for Innovative Applications of Internet and Multimedia Technologies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Apple W. P. Fok & Horace H. S. Ip

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

    Borko Furht (Editor-in-Chief) (Editor-in-Chief)

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Fok, A.W.P., Ip, H.H.S. (2006). Personalized Educational Hypermedia. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30038-4_188

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