Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems : 5th International Conference, AH 2008, Hannover, Germany, July 29 - August 1, 2008, Proceedings

by Nedjl, Wolfgang; Kay, Judy; Pu, Pearl; Herder, Eelco

• ISBN13: 9783540709848
• ISBN10: 3540709843
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-04
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, held in Hannover, Germany in July 2008.The 24 revised full papers and 26 revised short papers presented together with abstracts of 3 keynotes, 4 demo papers, and 11 doctoral consortium posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 185 papers submitted. The papers focus on pioneering theories, techniques, and innovative technologies to provide dynamic personalization, adaptation, and contextualization of hypermedia resources and services.

Table of Contents

Baroque Technology	p. 1
Adaptive Navigation Support for Open Corpus Hypermedia Systems	p. 6
Altruism, Selfishness, and Destructiveness on the Social Web	p. 9
A Rule-Based Recommender System for Online Discussion Forums	p. 12
Locally Adaptive Neighborhood Selection for Collaborative Filtering Recommendations	p. 22
Adaptive Retrieval of Semi-structured Data	p. 32
Using Collaborative Models to Adaptively Predict Visitor Locations in Museums	p. 42
Supporting Users in Creating Pedagogically Sound Personalised Learning Objects	p. 52
Supporting Interaction Preferences and Recognition of Misconceptions with Independent Open Learner Models	p. 62
An Evidence-Based Approach to Handle Semantic Heterogeneity in Interoperable Distributed User Models	p. 73
Concept-Based Document Recommendations for CiteSeer Authors	p. 83
Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube	p. 93
(Web Search)[superscript shared]: Social Aspects of a Collaborative, Community-Based Search Network	p. 103
Evaluation of ACTSim: A Composition Tool for Authoring Adaptive Soft Skill Simulations	p. 113
Modelling Semantic Relationships and Centrality to Facilitate Community Knowledge Sharing	p. 123
LS-Plan: An Effective Combination of Dynamic Courseware Generation and Learning Styles in Web-Based Education	p. 133
Pervasive Personalisation of Location Information: Personalised Context Ontology	p. 143
Using Decision Models for the Adaptive Generation of Learning Spaces	p. 153
Accuracy in Rating and Recommending Item Features	p. 163
Does 'Notice' Prompt Noticing? Raising Awareness in Language Learning with an Open Learner Model	p. 173
Proactive Versus Multimodal Online Help: An Empirical Study	p. 183
Re-assessing the Value of Adaptive Navigation Support in E-Learning Context	p. 193
The Effectiveness of Personalized Movie Explanations: An Experiment Using Commercial Meta-data	p. 204
User-Centric Profiling on the Basis of Cognitive and Emotional Characteristics: An Empirical Study	p. 214
Towards Computerized Adaptive Assessment Based on Structured Tasks	p. 224
Adaptation of Elaborated Feedback in e-Learning	p. 235
Adaptive Link Annotation in Distributed Hypermedia Systems: The Evaluation of a Service-Based Approach	p. 245
Do Students Trust Their Open Learner Models?	p. 255
A Framework for the Development of Distributed, Context-Aware Adaptive Hypermedia Applications	p. 259
Collection Browsing through Automatic Hierarchical Tagging	p. 263
Aspect-Based Personalized Text Summarization	p. 267
What Can I Watch on TV Tonight?	p. 271
Adaptive Navigation Support, Learner Control and Open Learner Models	p. 275
News@hand: A Semantic Web Approach to Recommending News	p. 279
A SOA-Based Framework to Support User Model Interoperability	p. 284
Integrated Speaker Classification for Mobile Shopping Applications	p. 288
The Authoring Tool of ADULT: Adaptive Understanding and Learning Text Environment	p. 292
Interoperability between MOT and Learning Management Systems: Converting CAF to IMS QTI and IMS CP	p. 296
Proactively Adapting Interfaces to Individual Users for Mobile Devices	p. 300
Reuse Patterns in Adaptation Languages: Creating a Meta-level for the LAG Adaptation Language	p. 304
Implementing a Multimodal Interface to a DITA User Assistance Repository	p. 308
Analysing High-Level Help-Seeking Behaviour in ITSs	p. 312
Data-Driven Prediction of the Necessity of Help Requests in ILEs	p. 316
A Dynamic Content Generator for Adaptation in Hypermedia Systems	p. 320
Automatic Generation of User Adapted Learning Designs: An AI-Planning Proposal	p. 324
Guaranteeing the Correctness of an Adaptive Tutoring System	p. 329
Designing a Personalized Semantic Web Browser	p. 333
Towards Inferring Sequential-Global Dimension of Learning Styles from Mouse Movement Patterns	p. 337
VUMA: A Visual User Modelling Approach for the Personalisation of Adaptive Systems	p. 341
Bookmark Category Web Page Classification Using Four Indexing and Clustering Approaches	p. 345
Personalization Using Ontologies and Rules	p. 349
RSS-Based Interoperability for User Adaptive Systems	p. 353
Assisting in Reuse of Adaptive Hypermedia Creator's Models	p. 357
Convergence of Web and TV Broadcast Data for Adaptive Content Access and Navigation	p. 361
Recommending Background Information and Related Content in Web 2.0 Portals	p. 366
Adaptive Portals: Context Adaptive Navigation through Large Information Spaces	p. 370
Personalized Recommendations for the Web 3D	p. 374
Adaptive User Modelling and Recommendation in Constrained Physical Environments	p. 378
Learning Style as a Parameter in a Unified e-Learning System Architecture: The Adaptive Diagnosis	p. 384
Facilitating Collaboration in Virtual Environments	p. 389
Learner Modelling in Exploratory Learning for Mathematical Generalisation	p. 394
GAF: Generic Adaptation Framework	p. 400
Engineering Information Systems towards Facilitating Scrutable and Configurable Adaptation	p. 405
Flexible Adaptivity in AEHS Using Policies	p. 410
A Validation Framework for Formal Models in Adaptive Work-Integrated Learning	p. 416
A Scrutable User Modelling Infrastructure for Enabling Life-Long User Modelling	p. 421
Merging Adaptive Hypermedia and Intelligent Tutoring Systems Using Knowledge Spaces	p. 426
SemWeB: A Semantic Web Browser for Supporting the Browsing of Users Using Semantic and Adaptive Links	p. 431
Author Index	p. 437
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