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Committee] Description This workshop follows a successful series of
workshops on the same topic: A3EH@AIED’05;
A3EH@AH’04;
and A3EH@WBE’04. The current workshop focuses on the issues of
design, implementation and evaluation of general Adaptive and Adaptable
Hypermedia, with applications in e-learning,
e-government, corporate systems and e-commerce.
Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia has been long considered as secondary to
adaptive hypermedia delivery. This task is not trivial at all. There exist
some approaches to help authors to build adaptive-hypermedia-based systems,
yet there is a strong need of 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, 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. One of these modules, which is most frequently used, is the User
Model, also called Learner Model in the Educational field (or Student Model
in ITS). Less frequent, but also emerging as an important module is the
Pedagogical Model (this model has also different names in different
implementations, too various to name here).
Other component models appearing can be: domain model, goal and
constraints model, adaptation model. This workshop looks at how adaptive
hypermedia can be created in an easier, more systematic way, based on reuse, automatization, flexible models and on emerging
standards. Therefore, important issues to discuss are, among
others:
The workshop will also lead to a better
understanding and cross-dissemination of user-specific patterns extracted
from existing design and authoring processes in AH. The workshop aims to
attract the interest of the related research communities to the important
issues of design and authoring; to discuss the current state of the art in
this field; and to identify new challenges in the field. Moreover, the
workshop should be seen as a platform that enables the cooperation and
exchange of information between European and non-European projects, as well
as feeding back in the PROLEARN network of excellence. * Design patterns
for adaptive hypermedia * Authoring rich
user models for adaptive/adaptable hypermedia * Authoring
pedagogic models for adaptive/adaptable educational hypermedia * Authoring for
mobile adaptive hypermedia * Generic authoring
for adaptive/adaptable hypermedia * Authoring
patterns for rich user models in adaptive/adaptable hypermedia * Authoring Tools
for rich user models in adaptive/adaptable hypermedia * Generic
authoring tools in adaptive/adaptable hypermedia * Reusable user
models and adaptation models * Authoring
personas (roles: e.g., domain author, adaptation author, etc.) for adaptive
hypermedia * Authoring
adaptation languages for adaptive hypermedia * Evaluation of
authoring tools for adaptive hypermedia * Evaluation of
adaptive hypermedia design patterns * Evaluation of
adaptive hypermedia authoring patterns Important Dates and Deadlines: Submission deadline: Notification of
acceptance or rejection: Final versions due:
Workshop: Main conference: Earlier submission
is encouraged. Please send an intention e-mail with a title and a short
intentional abstract as soon as you decide to submit. Organization There will be paper
presentation and panel discussions. These discussions
will be open to all; not only those who have papers accepted at the workshop
but also any other interested parties are welcome. After the paper
presentations, the discussion based on these questions will begin. Both the presenters
and the audience will be asked to contribute to the answering of these
questions. Full papers:
8-10 pages original mature research results Short papers:
4-6 pages original ongoing research All
submissions must be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines and
submitted as informed by the A3H workshop 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. Send your submissions to all following three emails,
with subject ‘A3H submission’: a.i.cristea@tue.nl, rosa.carro@uam.es, garzotto@elet.polimi.it . IMPORTANT: Selected papers will also be
invited for a Special Issue in a selected journal! Panel topic: “Are there differences between A3EH authoring
and A3H authoring?” Panelists: Vincent Wade,
Peter Brusilovsky, Marcus Specht,
Eric Duval (TBC), Alexandra Cristea, more: TBA Target Audience and Workshop Interest The workshop is
targeted at all people working towards the discovery and use of patterns,
formalisms, and mechanisms that can help them to develop and author adaptive
hypermedia, in the domain of education and beyond. The richer the adaptation
of a hypermedia-based system is, the more complex its specification uses to
be. Therefore, there is a clear need of 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. This includes
researchers that are active in all these fields, as well as representatives
of larger projects or networks dealing with these issues. We encourage these
researchers 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 patterns and pattern-based authoring. We encourage these
researchers to participate actively in the discussions for which time will be
especially allocated, as well as in the other interactive parts, such as
questionnaires and, if time allows it, demos. The workshop’s main
aim is to bring together researchers working or interested in the emerging
fields of adaptive patterns for
adaptive hypermedia authoring. We expect to extract and discuss these
emerging patterns, as well as see their implementations and evaluations, smoothening the transition towards standard proposals 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. As this is a new
field, we do not expect final results, but pointers towards some existing
solutions and better approaches. 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 first three editions of
this workshop. Dr.
Alexandra Cristea is assistant professor of
Information Systems at the Eindhoven University of
Technology in the Dr. Rosa M. Carro has worked
in the area of adaptive hypermedia since 1997. She got her doctoral degree in
Computer Science Engineering in the University Autónoma
of Madrid in 2001. Her research focuses on adaptive hypermedia, adaptive
e-learning systems, collaborative learning, authoring of adaptive and
collaborative hypermedia, ubiquitous training and evaluation. She was a
member of the research unit Mathematics and Applications of the Mathematics
Department of the Prof. Dr. Franca Garzotto has a Degree in Mathematics from Sarabjot Singh Anand, Helen Ashman, Tim Brailsford, Licia Calvi, Cristina Conati, Declan Dagger, Hugh Davis, Serge
Garlatti, GET-ENST Bretagne (France) Nicola Henze, Mike Joy, Judy Kay, Kinshuk, Toshio Okamoto, Alvaro Ortigosa,
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid ( Pedro Paredes,
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid ( Simos Retalis, Pilar
Rodríguez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) Daniel Schwabe, PUC - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Marcus Specht, Open University (Netherlands) Craig Stewart, Queen
Mary University of London ( Carlo Strapparava,
IRST ( Lorna Uden, Vincent Wade, Gerhard Weber, |
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