Adaptive Hypertext & Hypermedia Projects

METIORE
http://www.lcc.uma.es/metiorew

METIORE is a general Multimedia CoopErative InformaTIOn Retrieval SystEm (CIRS). The same system can be used for different IRS. METIORE personalises the response that it proposes to the user in order to his preferences and to his current objective. The database available through the Web contains most of the publications of the Adaptive Hypermedia Community and is updated permantently by the researchers in this area. For more information

KBS Hyperbook

The KBS Hyperbook system is a framework for designing and maintaining open, adaptive hypermedia systems in the internet. KBS hyperbooks give users the ability to define their own learning goals, propose next reasonable learning steps to take, support project-based learning, give alternative views, and can be extended by documents written by the learners.
Contact: Nicola Henze.

The Broadway Approach
http://www-sop.inria.fr/aid/papers/99hci/hci99.pdf

The Broadway approach of the AID Research Group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France) is an original approach for designing adaptive recomender systems which consists in analysing and reusing on-line similar past user sessions for recommendation computation. For supporting the development of a Broadway-based recommender system, we propose our object-oriented framework in Case-based Reasoning which manages past experiences with time-extended situations: such a framework called CBR*Tools was conceived with Rationale Rose, documented in terms of design patterns and written in Java. A tool box for supporting Broadway-based recommender systems for supporting information retrieval and browsing on the Web is being developed and called Broadway*Tools. Now several Broadway systems were developped (Broadway V1, BeCBKB, BroadwayAT). For more information

Broadway V1
http://www-sop.inria.fr/aid/broadway/index.html

Broadway V1 developped by the AID Research Group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France) is a WWW browsing advisor reusing past navigations from a group of users, based on the Broadway approach~: it follows a group of users during their navigations on the WWW (proxy-based architecture) and advises them by displaying a list of potentially relevant documents (as short-cuts) to visit next. Broadway V1 uses case-based reasoning to reuse precise experiences derived from past navigations with a time-extended situation assessment : the advice are based mainly on similarity of ordered sequence of past accessed documents. In addition, the dynamics of the WWW is addressed in the reuse step and with a specific method for case forgetting. Broadway V1 is written in Java using the Jigsaw proxy (W3C consortium) and CBR*Tools. For more information

SmexWeb
http://pst1.pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:8000/indexE.html

SmexWeb is a framework for adaptive Web-based learning systems developed at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany. It is implemented in Java and the SmexWeb pages are enhanced HTML pages with Java Script programs. At present SmexWeb offers a lesson on the topic of EBNF (Extended Backus-Naur Formalism). The interactivity between learner and system is increased by the use of Java applets.

SQL-Tutor
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tanja/sql-tut.html

SQL-Tutor is a knowledge-based teaching system which supports students learning SQL, the dominant database query language. The goal of this project is to provide an easy-to-use system that will adapt to the needs and learning abilities of individual students. The Windows version of the system is available for downloading, and the Web version is coming soon. SQL-Tutor is being developed by the Intelligent Computer Tutoring group.

Arthur
http://www.cat.uc.edu/gilbert/arthur.pdf

Adaptive Hypertext phd research project of Juan Gilbert at the University of Cincinnati. Was presented at the WebNet'99 conference.

WBI (pronounced "webby")
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/wbi

The Web Intermediaries approach was detailed in a paper by Rob Barrett and Paul Maglio from IBM at the WWW7 conference in Australia (http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/wbi/papers/www7/intermediaries.html). The WBI Personal History application has been available for several years. It is only one example of the wide range of possible intermediary applications.
You can now download and use the WBI Developer Kit to write your own intermediary applications.

Adaptive Hypermedia Course based on AHA
http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/2L690/

The course "2L690: Hypermedia structures and systems" uses an adaptive hypertext engine for WWW. The engine is called AHA. Links to pages are created when the student is ready for viewing the associated page, and are removed when reviewing the associated page is no longer considered useful. The content of pages is adapted by conditionally including fragments.
We are currently building a reference model (called AHAM) in an attempt to come up with a general framework for adaptive hypermedia systems.

AVANTI
http://www.gmd.de/fit/projects/avanti.html

The aim of AVANTI, a collaborative R&D project partially funded by the European Commission, is to develop and evaluate a distributed information system that provides hypermedia information about a metropolitan area (e.g., about public services, transportation, buildings) for a variety of users with different needs (e.g., tourists, citizens, travel agency clerks, elderly people, blind persons, wheelchair-bound people). The AVANTI system will cater to these individual needs by adapting the content and the presentation of web pages to each individual user based on a user model.

BASAR
http://zeus.gmd.de/projects/basar.html/

Building Agents Supporting Adaptive Retrieval

Evaluating Interbook
http://www.education.uts.edu.au/projects/interbook/

We are attempting to implement a section of a course at UTS using interbook to evaluate the effectiveness of adaptive navigation support.

PHASME
http://www.irpeacs.fr/~zeiliger/#phasme

PHASME is a software authoring tool whose aim is to complement TOOLBOOK (Asymetrix Corp.) with a knowledge representation (ER diagrams) and decision making features. The emphasis in PHASME is on graphical user interaction.

PersonalWebWatcher
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/theo-4/text-learning/www/pww/index.html

Webwatcher is a tour guide for the web, specialized to a person.It accompanies you from page to page as you browse the web, highlighting hyperlinks that it believes will be of interest. Its strategy for giving advice is learned from feedback from earlier tours. Personal WebWatcher is mainly inspired byWebWatcher. WebWatchercombines the feedback from multiple users about one web locality.Personal WebWatcher learns from one user and applies this knowledgeto arbitrary pages.

RATH
http://wundt.kfunigraz.ac.at/rath/

RATH is a prototype for a Relational Adaptive Tutoring Hypertext WWW-Environment. It is based on three sources: a mathematical model of hypertext developed by Albert, Hockemeyer and Held; the relational database theory; and a correspondence between the mathematical hypertext model and knowledge space theory (originally developed by Doignon and Falmagne). The prototype's features are illustrated by a tiny course in elementary probability theory.

University of Trier ELMART Home page
http://www.psychologie.uni-trier.de:8000/projects/ELM/elmart.html

ELM-ART is a full-fledged Intelligent Tutoring System to learn LISP on WWW.
It includes educational LISP interpreter (interactive!), intelligentproblem analysis, intelligent suggestion of examples, and episodic learnermodel. German version of ELM-ART use extensively adaptive navigationsupport by link annotation, which is an efficient adaptive hypermediatechnique.

HyperAudio
http://ecate.itc.it:1024/projects/hyperaudio/hyperaudio-eng.html

HyperAudio is a research project for developing a system able to organise exhibition contents taking into account the visitor's needs and the layout of the exhibit. In this way it will be possible to explore a certain subject, have instructions for finding the objects of interest, receive descriptions with references to that already seen and that to be seen shortly and receive instructions on alternative routes, thereby giving a personalised guide for visiting the physical space.

InterBook
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~peterb/InterBook.html

InterBook, a simple tool and server for developing and serving adaptive hypertext on the World Wide Web. Two adaptive hypermedia techniques are supported by Interbook - adaptive annotation and adaptive sorting. InterBook is available as freeware. Current version requires a Macintosh with at least12 Mb of RAM to run the WWW server.

I-DOC
http://www.isi.edu/isd/I-DOC/i-doc.html

The objective of the I-Doc project is to develop technology that enablessoftware documentation tobe generated on demand. Instead of producing large documents withgeneral information about asystem, I-Doc generates specific descriptions, sensitive to the user'swork context and level offamiliarity with the system. Explanation technology, related to thatdeveloped as part of ISI's VETand Debriefable Agents projects, is used to guide the generationprocess. The documentation isviewed via the Netscape hypertext viewer.

Media-Doc
http://www.isi.edu/isd/I-DOC/media-doc.html

This work aims to develop software explanations that integrate diagrams, animations, andtext. An enhanced tool called Media-Doc will be built that generates explanations that are contextualized and task-specific. It builds on ISI's earlier I-Doc work on generating task-specific software explanations.

CAMELEON
http://lithwww.epfl.ch/~laroussi/cameleon.html

Computer Aided MEdium for LEarning On Networks

NASA CID/Adaptive HypertextProject
http://ic-www.arc.nasa.gov/ic/projects/aim/cid/cid.html#mathe94

HUMLE PUSHProject
http://www.sics.se/humle/projects/push.html

The PUSH project investigates ways of utilising adaptive hypermedia to aid users of an on-line manual. The system hides parts of a page from the user's immediate view in order to reduce the information overflow problem. The adaptation is based on inferring the users information seeking task from their interactions with the system. The system is implemented using an object-oriented variant of SICStus Prolog, Netscape and Java. Related more recent projects are:
EdInfo and Persona.

The Peba-II HyperText GenerationSystem
http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/peba/

Peba-II is a natural language generation system which interactively describes entities in a taxonomic knowledge base via the dynamic generation of hypertext documents (in fact, World Wide Web pages). Peba currently produces descriptions and direct comparisons of animals upon request from the user. The system currently produces different texts for the naive and expert users, and varies the text slightly based on the discourse history. We are currently investigating the utility of comparisons made with similar and/or known entities within the hypertext domain.