Year: 2003
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The paper presents an attempt to extend a general-purpose adaptive hypermedia (AH)\narchitecture AHA! with flexible and rich interface by re-using some ideas explored in a more\nspecific AH system InterBook. The most popular application (course) created with the old\nversion of AHA! (the hypermedia course 2L670, later called 2L690, at the TU/e) used a\nsingle-window/single-frame concept representation which had advantages of its simplicity and\nclarity for the user. In this course concepts are always represented in a single frameless\nwindow. This mechanism is not sophisticated enough to serve as a general-purpose\nmechanism for concept representation. InterBook on the other hand has a much richer user\ninterface characterized by the use of multiple windows and frames. This approach has more\npossibilities for representing the course domain, but has a problem of its rigid presentation\nstructire. The author has no possibilities of adapting the user interface to the specific course\nwhich means that every course served by Interbook has the same look independent of the\ncourse characteristics. To address the lack of user interface possibilities in AHA! we\ndeveloped the Layout model that employs the strong points of Interbook user interface. The\ndynamic structures of the Layout model are easily extendible and give author the power to\nadapt the user interface to the nature of the course.
Source: TU/e Research Portal
Authors: Peter Brusilovsky, Tomi Santic, P.M.E. De Bra
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1497377520