[Papers |
Program | Important Dates | Topics & Themes | Submission | Panel | Audience | Organizers | Program Committee] Description This workshop follows a successful series of workshops
on the same topic: A3H at AH’08 in Hannover, A3H at UM’07, A3EH@AH’06, A3EH@AIED’05;
A3EH@AH’04;
and A3EH@WBE’04. The current workshop targets work on design,
implementation and evaluation of
general Adaptive and Adaptable (Educational) Hypermedia, with special
emphasis on major trends in web authoring and the design and creation of web
material: • General
frameworks and advanced tools for authoring Adaptive Hypermedia • Visual
and graphical authoring environments for Adaptive Hypermedia • Multi-modal
and multi-layered authoring models • Termination,
confluence and verification from an authoring point of view • Authoring
for the Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web • Collaborative
authoring 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. However, a shift in interest occurred (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: * How can frameworks and advanced tools facilitate
and contribute to automate authoring? * How can visual, e.g. drag and drop environments
make authoring easier? * How can verification be made possible in authoring
environments? To what extent can it be automated? * How and to what extent can Semantic Web standards
be applied in the authoring process? * How can Web 2.0 concepts and methodology be used
in authoring? * How does grouping of authors or assignment of
authoring roles influence the authoring process, and are there ways to
optimize this? Important Dates and Deadlines: Submission deadline: 30th June, 2009 Notification of acceptance or rejection: 15 August, 2009 Final versions due: 5th September,
2009 Workshop: September 29 (TBC), 2009 Main conference: September 29- October 2, 2009 Organization This is a half-day workshop. There will be paper
presentation (full; short; posters) and discussions+panel.
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. We intend to
continue the tradition started in the past workshop series, where this
discussion was organized in the form of a panel of well-known invited
speakers, which triggered and broadened the discussion with the rest of the
audience. Full
papers: 10-15 pages (same as main
conference) original
mature research results Short
papers: 3-6 pages original
ongoing research We welcome discussion proposals as well as research
papers. Papers accepted for the workshop will be published in the workshop
proceedings of the ECTEL’2009 conference. Selected papers will also be invited for a Special
Issue in a selected journal. 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. Send your submissions via Easychair to
the ‘A3H workshop’; please also send a copy with
subject ‘A3H submission’ to: a.i.cristea@warwick.ac.uk, rosa.carro@uam.es. IMPORTANT: Selected papers will also be
invited for a Special Issue for the JUCS
journal. Panel topic: TBA Panelists: TBA 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, automation, 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. Dr.
Alexandra Cristea is associate professor (senior lecturer) at the Department of Computer
Science, 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 Helen Ashman,
University of Nottingham ( Susan Bull, University
of Paul De Bra, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Netherlands) http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~debra/ Tim Brailsford, University of Nottingham ( Licia Calvi,
University of Cristina Conati, Declan Dagger, Trinity
College Dublin (Irland)
https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Declan.Dagger/ Hugh Davis,
Southampton University ( Serge Garlatti, GET-ENST Bretagne (France) http://perso.enst-bretagne.fr/~garlatti/HomePage/ Franca Garzotto, Milano Politecnic (Italy) http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/SIMOS/People/garzotto.htm Nicola Henze, Judy Kay, Kinshuk, Toshio Okamoto, Alvaro Ortigosa, Universidad Autonoma
de Madrid ( Helen Pain, University
of Simos Retalis,
Pilar Rodríguez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
(Spain) http://www.ii.uam.es/~pilar/ Marcus Specht, Fraunhofer Institute
for Applied Information Technology ( Daniel Schwabe, PUC - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
http://www-di.inf.puc-rio.br/schwabe// Carlo Strapparava, IRST (Italy) http://tcc.itc.it/people/strapparava.html
Craig Stewart, Queen
Mary, University of London (UK)
http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/department/staff/research/craigs.htm Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University ( Vincent Wade, Gerhard Weber, Freiburg University of Education ( |
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