[Program | Important Dates
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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
Netherlands. She obtained her PhD at 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, Nicola Henze, Mike Joy, Judy Kay, Kinshuk, Toshio Okamoto, Alvaro
Ortigosa, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) Pedro Paredes, Universidad Autonoma de
Madrid (Spain) Simos
Retalis, Pilar
Rodríguez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) Daniel
Schwabe, PUC - Marcus Specht, Open University ( Craig Stewart, Queen Mary University of
London ( Carlo Strapparava, IRST ( Lorna Uden, Vincent Wade, Gerhard Weber, |
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