Many hypermedia projects exist as small-scale prototypes or so-called proof of concept demonstrations. But full-scale projects that are deployed and maintained In production are scarce, because problems can arise at various points In the project life cycle that cause the project to fail. Problems that arise when the project is started include the lack of realistic expectations and the difficult...

The World Wide Web is the largest and most successful hypermedia system developed. The popularity and scalability of the Web is due to its simplicity and its expandable architecture, enabling developers to incorporate new emerging technologies. However the simplicity renders it impossible to build collaborative applications and sophisticated structures in a pure Web environment. This has motiva...

Computer-based multimedia and hypermedia resources (e.g., the world wide web) have become one of the primary sources of academic information for a majority of pupils and students. In line with this expansion in the field of education, the scientific study of learning from multimedia and hypermedia has become a very active field of research. In this chapter we provide a short overview with regar...

Robots and hypermedia have been used as effective technological tools in the educational field. Despite their benefits, there are no studies investigating impact on primary students’ intrinsic motivation field of science. For these reasons, study aims to recognize employing LEGO WeDo 2.0 robotic learn science among students. The implemented quasi-experimental approach with a dual group design. ...

The emerging decentralized virtual organizations provide various environments for the collaborative work performed by the users distributed in terms of geography and time. In such virtual organizations, hypermedia documents should be observed and controlled to suit each organization's needs. We discuss the mechanisms in which environments of virtual organizations control views of shared hyperme...

Design for All is an important challenge for hypermedia engineering. We analyze this challenge and show that it is necessary to find a way of describing partially designed hypermedia documents that can then be transformed into different hypermedia applications according to user needs and call this concept “semi-documents”. We sketch similarities and differences to existing formalisms and conclu...

This paper takes a first step towards defining a standard component-based open hypermedia system storage interface in the context of the Open Hypermedia System Working Group. The paper presents a proposal for the core set of services of such an interface. The existence of such an interface is one of the basic preconditions for interoperability at the middleware level in hypermedia systems. The ...

This paper describes an adaptive technology of link insertion, used in educational hypermedia. It also presents an adaptive hypermedia system that uses this technology and the results of system evaluation in a real environment. The described adaptive system integrates elements of knowledge uncertainty into the user model. This model is then used for system adaptation, which builds on adaptive l...

Hypermedia systems design presents challenges that are not normally encountered with the development of orthodox ‘traditional’ information systems. In recognition of these challenges, and of the purported inadequacy of conventional software engineering techniques, there is much support in the literature for the view that new, specialized methods are needed. The question must therefore be asked:...