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Theme and goal
The Web is one of the most commonly used media
for exchanging
information and disseminating knowledge. Yet sometimes the information
offered
to the users does not seamlessly fit with their actual needs.
Adaptive hypermedia, which has increased its popularity during the
last few years
exponentially, supports the personalization of the information
presented to the
users. The growing use of the Internet has contributed to the
consolidation of
this research area, giving rise to new specialized workshops and
conferences,
such as Adaptive Hypermedia (AH). Its main purpose, in this context, is
to
increase the functionality of the Internet, so that each user can
access to the
most appropriate information according to his/her needs, as well as be
presented with this information in the most suitable way for its
comprehension.
The development of adaptive Web-based sites is
not a trivial task. There
exist some approaches that try to help Web engineers to describe and
develop
adaptive systems. Yet there is a strong need of formalisms, mechanisms,
methodologies and systems that both support the description of adaptive
websites and facilitate this task, by performing it, in some cases,
semi-automatically or even under no supervision.
Apart from being a very suitable platform to
support adaptation,
Internet also supports the communication and interaction between users,
allowing them to work in teams. Moreover, collaboration and
cooperation
activities can help the users to acquire and improve personal
skills
such as working in team, making ideas explicit, arguing and interacting
with
others, among others. Furthermore, these activities can prevent the
users of
Web-based systems from feeling isolated, especially in distance
learning or
distance working contexts.
Once again, the authoring of specific web-based
collaboration workspaces
is not trivial.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together
researchers and
practitioners in the fields of adaptive hypermedia, collaborative
systems, user
modelling and web engineering, to present and discuss about new
approaches
(including methods, techniques and methodologies, among others) that
can facilitate
the design and implementation of adaptive and collaborative web-based
systems
to the Internet community. The main goal is to explore the feasibility
of using
or combining different approaches to create effective adaptive and
collaborative Websites, as well as to identify new and remaining needs
to be
fulfilled in order to apply these methods and techniques successfully
from a
Web engineering perspective.
Topics of interest
The workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
- Authoring adaptive hypermedia/collaborative web-based systems
- Formalisms and languages to describe adaptive hypermedia systems/collaboration workspaces
- Theoretical frameworks for adaptive/collaborative website generation
- Methodologies for the development of adaptive/collaborative web-based systems
- Mechanisms to generate adaptive hypermedia/collaboration workspaces
- Inclusion
of pedagogical in educational environments
- Specification
of collaborative activities in educational environments
- Use of artificial intelligence methods for adaptation/collaboration
- User and group modelling for the Web
- Adaptation to mobile devices
- Collaboration through mobile devices
- Reusable adaptive hypermedia
- Reusable collaboration workspaces
- Adaptive Web-based applications
- Collaborative Web-based applications
- Empirical evaluation of adaptive/collaborative systems
Questions and comments:
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