[Program |
Important Dates | Topics & Themes | Submission | Panel | Audience | Organizers | Program Committee] Description This workshop follows a successful series of
workshops on the same topic: A3EH@AH’06, 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
(Educational) Hypermedia, with special emphasis on individual and group user
modelling in the authoring process. 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. 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). This workshop will cover all aspects of the authoring
process of adaptive hypermedia, from design to evaluation, with special attention
to User and Learner models. 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 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 * Authoring patterns for rich user models and
pedagogic models in adaptive/adaptable hypermedia * Authoring tools for rich user models and pedagogic
models in adaptive/adaptable hypermedia * Generic authoring tools in adaptive/adaptable
hypermedia * Reusable user models, group user models, and
pedagogic models * Connecting adaptive educational hypermedia with
cognitive/learning styles * Evaluation of authoring tools for adaptive
hypermedia * Evaluation of adaptive hypermedia design patterns * Evaluation of adaptive hypermedia authoring
patterns Important Dates and Deadlines: NEW Submission deadline: February 27, 2007 Notification of acceptance or rejection: March 25, 2007 Camera ready: April 15, 2007 Workshop: June 25, 2007 Main conference: June 25-29, 2007 Organization This is a one-day workshop. There will be paper
presentation and 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 (in the past workshop
series, 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: 8 pages original
mature research results Short
papers: 4 pages original
ongoing research All submissions must be formatted according to
Springer LNCS guidelines and submitted as informed by the UM2007 website
(please note that the space is SMALLER than for the regular papers). For paper submissions, please use the same
paper format as for the main conference, but with margins of: TOP and BOTTOM
- 3cm; LEFT and RIGHT - 3.5cm. 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 two emails,
with subject ‘A3H submission’: a.i.cristea@tue.nl, rosa.carro@uam.es. IMPORTANT: Selected papers will also be
invited for a Special Issue in the JUCS journal: http://www.jucs.org/jucs_12_11! 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 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 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 adaptive patterns
for adaptive hypermedia authoring. We expect to extract and discuss these
emerging patterns, as well as see their implementations and evaluations,
encouraging 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. 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 two 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 Sarabjot Singh Anand, Helen Ashman, University of Nottingham ( Susan Bull, University
of 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 ( Paul De Bra, Eindhoven
University of Technology ( Serge Garlatti, Franca Garzotto,
Milano Politecnic ( Nicola Henze, Judy Kay, Kinshuk, Wolfgang Nejdl, Toshio Okamoto, Alvaro Ortigosa,
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid ( Helen Pain, University
of Simos Retalis, Pilar Rodríguez,
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid ( 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 ( 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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