Adaptive hypermedia is an alternative to the traditional “one-size-fits-all” approach in the development of hypermedia systems. Adaptive hypermedia (AH) systems build a model of the goals, preferences, and knowledge of each individual user, and use this model throughout the interaction with the user, in order to adapt to the needs of that user. Adaptive navigation support is a specific group of...

In the past decade, hypermedia programmes have gained attraction for the purposes of teaching and learning. These programmes provide students with freedom of navigation. On the other hand, students are required to develop learning paths by themselves. Empirical evidence indicates that not all of learners can benefit from hypermedia learning. In particular, they have problems to deal with non-li...

The amount of information on the web is permanently growing. The orientation within the information is becoming more and more complicated. It is necessary to develop a system able to adapt the information for the needs of the user and to personalize the presentation of information according to his/her preferences. In this paper we discuss current approaches used in the research, both advantages...

Context-aware computing focuses on developing systems which through different kinds of sensory systems are able to collect information about the physical environment in order to, more or less automatically, adapt data and behavior to the user’s current context. The aim is to create systems that, rather than solely depend on explicit user input, can react to changes in the use-context and thereb...

Hypermedia offers a new paradigm for the design of information systems within museums. Yet working applications are few and far between. One problem has been that the query-based mode of searching has tended to be completely overshadowed by the navigational mode in hypermedia. Both are required for different ends in an information systems application. A naive user may prefer to browse using nav...

Most hypermedia systems have been developed as a unique and self-contained application preventing information interchange and code reusability between applications. To address this problem, a generic layered architecture for hypermedia systems with four major interfaces is first introduced. The architecture adequately uses the MHEG proposal to provide the desired independence between hypermedia...

With the advent and growth of the Web, hypermedia information systems have propagated within and beyond organisations. Much concern has been expressed about the quality of hypermedia systems being developed and the apparent absence of disciplined development practices. There has been talk that the infamous “software crisis” is afflicting hypermedia systems development, allegedly characterised b...

World Wide Web (WWW) authors must cope in a hypermedia environment analogous to secondgeneration computing languages, building and managing all hypermedia links using simple anchors and singlestep navigation. We present a set of thirdand fouvthgeneration hypermedia functionalities, which WWW developers should consider. We ground our discussion in the hypermedia research literature, and illustra...

The Conceptual Origins Of Hypermedia The importance of "selection" in information retrieval Hypertext Augmentation technology Hypermedia Defined And Differentiated Hypermedia Multimedia Hypertext Features Of Hypermedia-based Systems Higher potential information bandwidth in user-computer dialogue Better information access and exchange capabilities through a unified software interface Non-tradit...

The Construct development environment is targeted at the construction of different types of hypermedia services. The primary goal of the environment is to ease the construction of component-based open hypermedia systems by providing development tools that assist system developers in the generation of the set of service components that make up a hypermedia system. This paper explains how the Con...