This workshop follows a
successful series of workshops on the same topic: A3H at UM 2007, in Corfu, AH 2006,
in
The current workshop focuses
on the issues of design, implementation and evaluation[1] of general
Adaptive and Adaptable (Educational) Hypermedia, with special emphasis on three
major trends in web authoring and the design and creation of web material:
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 (fuelled in part by this workshop series), 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.
Therefore, important issues to
discuss are, among others:
* Can adaptive hypermedia be
authored based on standards only, or to what extent is this possible?
* How and to what extent can
Semantic Web standards be applied in the authoring process?
* How can the authoring steps
be done automatically? Which steps can be done in automatic way, and which
steps need to remain manually authored?
* How can Web 2.0 concepts and
methodology be used in authoring? How can semantics and ontologies be extracted
from folksonomies in a useful manner?
* How can we support adaptive
(or, in the educational field, pedagogic) scenarios? How can applying Semantic
Web ideas, technologies and techniques support the adaptation scenarios? How
can adaptivity be applied if authoring is done via Web 2.0 methods?
* How can the adaptive
knowledge be formulated in a reusable manner? Are there any recurring patterns
that can be detected in the authoring process generally speaking?
* How does grouping of authors
or assignment of authoring roles influence the authoring process, and are there
ways to optimize this?
Major Themes
* Authoring for adaptivity
based on Semantic Web standards or other standards
* Authoring for adaptivity
based on Web 2.0 ideas, methodology, technology, applications
* Folksonomies and Ontologies
in Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia
* Automatization in Authoring
of Adaptive Hypermedia
* Design patterns for adaptive
hypermedia
* Authoring group user models
for adaptive/adaptable hypermedia
* Authoring in groups
* Role-based authoring
* Automatic, adaptive
authoring
* Authoring pedagogic models for
adaptive/adaptable educational hypermedia
* Generic authoring for
adaptive/adaptable hypermedia
* Generic authoring tools in
adaptive/adaptable hypermedia
* Reusable user models, group
user models, and pedagogic models
* Evaluation of authoring
tools for adaptive hypermedia
* Evaluation of adaptive
hypermedia design patterns
* Evaluation of adaptive
hypermedia authoring patterns
Target Audience and Workshop Interest
The workshop is targeted at
all people working towards or just interested in state-of-the art on the discovery and use of patterns, formalisms,
mechanisms and implementations that can help them to develop and author adaptive
hypermedia, in educational domain and beyond. The richer the adaptation of a
hypermedia-based system is, the more complex its specification needs to be.
Therefore, there is a clear need of using standards, automatization, discovering
patterns and developing formalisms, mechanisms or tools to facilitate and
support the task of authoring adaptive hypermedia, by performing it, in some
cases, (semi-)automatically. The necessity of these
patterns can be as a result of authoring push or AH system interfacing or
ultimately open (adaptive) hypermedia or pull. This means that patterns can
emerge from repetitive structures used by AH authors; alternatively, patterns
can emerge from interface programs or interface languages between different
adaptive hypermedia systems, or from trying to interface to the open adaptive
hypermedia. As the technology advances, and as the web standards are becoming
more competitive, communities from different corners, such as Adaptive
Hypermedia and Semantic Web need to be put together, to solve old problems,
such as the one of Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia. Moreover, this workshop is
also targeted at people interested in the new Web 2.0 methods technologies, and
in how these can be applied to push forward the authoring process, by using the
force of the masses, instead of the expertise of the few (as is the case in the
Semantic Web).
Thus, the target audience
includes researchers and practitioners that are active in all these fields, as
well as representatives of larger projects or networks dealing with these
issues. We encourage this audience to submit papers to the workshop on their
latest results and ideas.
Moreover, the workshop is also
targeted at people who are interested to hear and discuss the state of the art
and the future of this important domain of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web
authoring. We encourage them to participate actively in the discussions for
which time will be especially allocated, as well as in the other interactive
sections, such as questionnaires and (if possible) demos.
The workshop's main aim is to
bring together researchers working or interested in the emerging fields of semantic
web, Web 2.0 and adaptive hypermedia authoring. We expect to extract and
discuss these merge of research and application directions, as well as see
their implementations and evaluations, encouraging the transition towards
standard extensions and improvements in the field.
Participants are expected to
leave with a better knowledge of the state of the art of the field, as well as
to have a fruitful brain-storming session generating new ideas and opening new
paths.
Results of the discussions and questionnaire processing will be posted after the workshop on-line on the workshop site, as is the case with the previous editions of this workshop.
SUBMISSION CATEGORIES:
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We welcome discussion proposals as well as research papers. Papers accepted for the workshop will be published in the workshop proceedings of the AH'2008 conference (online, as well as on paper).
Full papers: 8-10 pages
- original mature research results
Short papers: 4 pages
- original ongoing research
Posters: 2 pages
- original ongoing research or research ideas of visual nature
All submissions must be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines and submitted as informed by the AH2008 website.
All submissions will undergo a thorough reviewing and refereeing process in order to decide on acceptance.
The submissions should be in the format of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Please check http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for instructions on how to prepare submissions.
IMPORTANT: Selected papers will also be invited for a Special Issue in a selected journal!
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