Towards a Methodology for Adaptive Hypermedia Systems Development

Adaptive hypermedia (AH) systems that adapt themselves to the user’s characteristics generally include for this purpose a user model component. The designer has to specify different solutions for content, navigation and presentation, and define adaptation criteria. To support the development of AH applications an engineering approach is required that considers user modelling and adaptive aspects. This paper presents a Methodology for Adaptive Hypermedia Systems Development (AHDM) covering the whole life cycle of AH applications. It includes phases for the development of the user model, the adaptive interface and the dialogue component responsible for the modelling of the user’s behaviour. For each analysis and design phase an appropriate notation is proposed.