Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia
J.UCS Special Issue
Alexandra Cristea
(Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
acristea@dcs.warwick.ac.uk)
Rosa Carro
Department of Computer Science, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
rosa.carro@uam.es)
Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia has been long considered as secondary
to adaptive hypermedia delivery. However, authoring is not trivial at
all. There exist some approaches to help authors to build
adaptive-hypermedia-based systems, yet there is a strong need for
high-level approaches, formalisms and tools that support and
facilitate the description of reusable adaptive websites. Only
recently have we noticed a shift in interest, as it became clearer
that the implementation-oriented approach would forever keep adaptive
hypermedia away from the 'layman author. The creator of adaptive
hypermedia cannot be expected to know all facets of this process, but
can be reasonably trusted to be an expert in one of them. It is
therefore necessary to research and establish the components of an
adaptive hypermedia system from an authoring perspective, catering for
the different author personas that are required. This type of research
has proven to lead to a modular view on the adaptive hypermedia.
Authoring adaptive and adaptable hypermedia is, as mentioned, an
extremely difficult task, and researchers from around the world are
investigating different ways to facilitate it. This subject is
important enough that a series of workshops, called A3H (Authoring of
Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia) and dealing with this specific
topic, have been successfully held during the last few years: A3H at
User Modeling 2007 (UM07); A3H at Adaptive Hypermedia 2006 (AH06),
in Dublin; at the 12th International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Education (AIED 2005), in Amsterdam; at Adaptive
Hypermedia 2004 (AH04), in Eindhoven; and at the IASTED International
Conference on Web-Based Education (WBE 2004), in Innsbruck. The best
papers from this series of workshops are invited to re-submit to
special issues, and go through a process of extensions, improvement,
and thorough peer reviewing.
The current special issue is addressing authoring of adaptive
hypermedia, by analyzing aspects of it together with topical subjects
such as:
- Intelligent tutoring systems, authoring systems, constraint-based
modeling, domain models, Ontology, represented by the paper: ITS Domain Modelling with
Ontology, by Brent Martin, Antonija Mitrovic and Pramuditha
Suraweera
- Authoring support, adaptive educational hypermedia, data mining
applications, represented by the paper Improving AEH Courses
through Log Analysis, by César Vialardi, Javier Bravo
and Alvaro Ortigosa
- Authoring; Adaptive Educational Hypermedia; CAF (common
adaptation format); Evaluation; Metadata; RDF; Semantic Desktop;
Semi-automatic adding, represented by the paper A Spiral Model for
Adding Automatic, Adaptive Authoring to Adaptive
Hypermedia, by Maurice Hendrix and Alexandra Cristea
- Sequencing Graph, IMS Learning Design, translation, sequencing
represented by the paper Authoring Courses with
Rich Adaptive Sequencing for IMS Learning Design, by Sergio
Gutierrez, Abelardo Pardo and Carlos Kloos
- Hypermedia Authoring, Collaboration, Ambient Intelligence, Active
Spaces, Task Scheduling, Social-aware computing represented by the
paper Authoring
Social-aware Tasks on Active Spaces, by Roberto F. Arroyo,
M. Gea, J.L. Garrido, Pablo A. Haya and Rosa M. Carro
- Metadata and Learning, Learning Objects, Learning Activities,
Learning Design, Semantic Web, Pedagogy guidelines, Educational
standards, Design templates, Adaptive eLearning, User Modelling
represented by the paper A Standards-based
Modelling -approach for Dynamic Generation of Adaptive Learning
Scenarios, by Jesus G. Boticario and Olga C. Santos
- Hypermedia systems, Adaptive Hypermedia, Adaptive Educational
Hypermedia, Culture, Cultural Education, CAE, represented by the paper
Authoring &
Culture in Online Education, by Craig Stewart
- Adaptive environments, Authoring tools, E-Learning, Game based
learning, represented by the paper Creating Adaptive
e-Learning Board Games for School Settings Using the ELG
Environment, by Symeon Retalis
Thus, design (via ontologies), analysis (via logs), automation, IMS-LD
and other standards connections, social and cultural aspects, and game
technology approaches are presented in this special issue, showing
once again the many facets of authoring for personalization and
adaptation. The special issue editors would like to extend their
thanks to authors, reviewers (who took their task very seriously and
returned many useful comments that helped in improving the quality of
the papers) and the J.UCS editorial team, for keeping us on track.
Alexandra Cristea
Rosa Carro
September 2008
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