Owen Conlan

State of the Art: Adaptive Hypermedia

Adaptive Hypermedia (AH) is one of the most promising application areas for user modelling and useradapted interaction techniques [Brusilovsky, 94]. AH systems can be useful in any situation were the system may be used by people with different goals and knowledge and where the hyperspace is reasonably large. Users with different goals and knowledge may be interested in different pieces of information presented on a Hypermedia page and/or may use different links to navigate to those pages. AH tries to overcome this problem by using knowledge about a particular user, represented in the user model, to adapt the information and links being presented to the given user.

From the perspective of M-Zones, Adaptive Hypermedia and the techniques researched in the broader adaptive eLearning domain have implications for personalisation in many facets of Smart Space design.