2nd Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia
HYPERTEXT'98, Pittsburgh, USA, June 20-24, 1998

Workshop Schedule

8:15 - 8:40 Introduction

8:40 - 10:00 Session 1: Architectures

Towards a Generic Adaptive Hypermedia System
Paul De Bra
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Licia Calvi
University of Antwerp, Belgium

Content Adaptation for Audio-based Hypertexts in Physical Environments
Elena Not, Massimo Zancanaro
Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Italy

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:20 Posters and Demos

Demo of XLibris, The Active Reading Machine
Gene Golovchinsky
FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA

Building a User Model for a Museum Exploration and Information-Providing Adaptive System
Marcello Sarini and Carlo Strapparava
Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Italy

Open poster space
Every attendee with a full, short, or position paper accepted is eligible to set up a poster

11:20 - 12:00 Session 2: WWW and Education: New Models

Computed Web Links: The COOL Link Model (short paper)
Michael Miller and L. Jay Wantz
Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA

User Adaptivity on WWW through CHEOPS (short paper)
Alberto Negro, Vittorio Scarano, Rosaria Simari
Università di Salerno, Italy

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 Poster session continues

14:00 - 15:30 Session 3: Education and Evaluation

The Value of Adaptivity in Hypermedia Learning Environments: A Short Review of Empirical Evidence
John Eklund
The University Sydney, Australia
Peter Brusilovsky
Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Concepts and documents for adaptive educational hypermedia: a model and a prototype
Denise Pilar da Silva, Rafaël Van Durm, Erik Duval, Henk Olivié
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

An Evaluation of Adapted Hypermedia Techniques Using Static User Modelling (short paper)
Jatinder Hothi and Wendy Hall
Southampton University, U.K.

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 Session 4: WWW Prospects for Adaptive and Flexible Hypermedia

Adaptive Communities and Web Places
Paul P. Maglio and Rob Barrett
IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

Personalizing Access to Web Sites: The SiteIF Project (short paper)
Anna Stefani and Carlo Strapparava
Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Italy

General Discussion

Workshop Closing

19:00 Inofficial Workshop Dinner