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The 3rd International Conference on 
Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems 

The Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
August 23 - 26, 2004

CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Individual Differences in Adaptive Hypermedia

WORKSHOP SITE
http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~gmagoulas/AH2004_Workshop/index.html
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You are kindly invited to contribute to the Workshop on
``Individual Differences in Adaptive Hypermedia''. The Workshop aims to
contribute to the global research in Adaptive Hypermedia by:
1. Integrating individual differences theory into adaptive hypermedia
applications.
2. Providing insight into analytical and architectural aspects of
adaptive hypermedia that exploit individual differences for
personalisation.
3. Illustrating technical solutions to the development of adaptive
hypermedia systems that take into account individual differences.
4. Providing professionals with an informative introduction to this
special area of interest of adaptive hypermedia 
5. Investigating how to embrace the various dimensions of individual
differences into adaptive hypermedia effectively.



Background and Motivation

Although personalisation is recognised as an effective approach in
several application areas, it is still not very clear whether adaptive
hypermedia systems can accommodate individual differences effectively,
in terms of providing individualised navigation support, delivering
personalised content, adapting the presentation or the layout to the
needs of the user. Existing applications mainly consider users'
preferences based on collecting explicit or implicit information, and
emphasise on prior knowledge. Clearly, there is a number of important
human factors, such as gender differences, cognitive styles, personality
factors, cultural backgrounds and so 
on that have not been fully explored, as well as techniques for
adaptivity that can be potentially useful to accommodate individual
differences. To fill this gap, this workshop will explore how to embrace
the various dimensions of individual differences into adaptive
hypermedia, and will investigate the impacts of individual differences
on the design, implementation and use of adaptive hypermedia systems. 

Topics and Research Questions

Individuals differ in traits such as skills, aptitudes and preferences
for processing information, constructing meaning from information, and
applying it to real-world situations. The topics discussed in this
workshop will address various dimensions of individual differences, such
as the level of knowledge or literacy, gender, culture, spatial
abilities, cognitive styles, accessibility issues for the disable and
elderly. The Workshop will explore how individual differences theory can
be integrated into the design, development and implementation of
adaptive hypermedia applications, and 
investigate how individual differences considerations influence the use
of adaptive hypermedia applications.
Papers submitted to this Workshop must contribute towards addressing
research questions related to at least one of the following aspects:
- How adaptive hypermedia can improve accessibilities by providing multi
modalities that match the needs of individual users? 
- What design guidelines should be established for development, and what
criteria are needed for evaluating adaptive hypermedia that can
accommodate individual differences?
- How different dimensions of individual differences can be combined in
an adaptive hypermedia system?
- What type of information is needed from user profiles to identify
individual's preferences? 
- What kind of ontologies are needed for representing individual
differences 
dimensions in the user model and the personalisation engine of adaptive 
hypermedia systems?
- What are the relationships between adaptive hypermedia techniques and
individual differences?

Submission Formats

Each submission must address at least one of the main workshop
questions. Full papers should not exceed 10 pages and should be
formatted according to the Springer's LNCS style. Please refer to the
submission section on the workshop's web pages for details on the
camera-ready format of the papers. 
Workshop papers will be published in full length in the workshop
proceedings and presented orally at the Workshop. 
Please, submit your paper by e-mail to George Magoulas 
([log in to unmask]) by May 10, 2004. Postscript (*.ps), Portable
Document Format (*.pdf) or MS-Word files are preferred. 

Important Dates

May 10, 2004: submission of papers
June 10, 2004: notification of results 
July 01, 2004: delivery of camera-ready paper 
August 23, 2004: Workshop date; the main conference will last until
August 26, 2004

Workshop Committee

A. Organisers

George D. Magoulas ([log in to unmask]), Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Sherry Y. Chen ([log in to unmask]), Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, UK 

Please contact the organisers for any questions related to the workshop.

B. Committee Members
Ann Blandford, UCL Interaction Centre, University College London, UK 
Peter Brusilovsky, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA 
Nigel Ford, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK 
Anthony Jameson, DFKI-German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany 
Judy Kay, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Australia 
Robert Macredie, Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, UK 
Kyparissia Papanikolaou, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece
Alexandra Poulovassilis, London Knowledge Lab, University of London, UK 
Diane Sonnenwald, Goteborg University and University College of Boras, Sweden
Marcus Specht, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Germany

Contact Person

George D. Magoulas 
School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College,
University of 
London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK
mailto:[log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 20 7631 6700; +44 20 7631 6717 (direct)
Fax: +44 20 7631 6727