[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 UM’07, 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 three major trends in web authoring and the design and
creation of web material: • the
introduction and use of standards, especially Semantic Web related standards
for authoring; • automation
processes in authoring; • use
of Web 2.0 concepts and methodology in 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. 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? * 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 * Evaluation of adaptive hypermedia as feedback for
the authoring process Important Dates and Deadlines: Submission deadline: April 21, 2008 (EXTENDED) Notification of acceptance or rejection: May 14, 2008 Final versions due: June 1, 2008 Workshop: July 29, 2008 Main conference: July 28- August 1, 2008 Organization This is a one-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: 8-10 pages original
mature research results Short
papers: 4 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 AH’2008 conference (online, as well as on paper). 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 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 a selected 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, 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. 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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