General information about the Prolearn 'Network of Excellence' can be found at the Prolearn project page.
General information about the Adaptive Learning Spaces project can be found here
More specific information on the Adaptation strategies and the use of our Enricher application can be found here
We run the following systems for our research on this server:
Adaptive Hypermedia is a generalized paradigm for web pages which can adapt their content towards the users need. Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia is considered difficult and time consuming. Therefore, there is a great need of improving authoring environments for Adaptive Hypermedia.
The Semantic Desktop is a paradigm for desktop computing, where information is stored in a way which captures its meaning, to some extent. This enables retrieval of relevant information in a much better way than with information stored as raw content. Of course, this information does not stay static, but evolves. The exact way in which this information is stored also evolves.
A possible way of solving the problem of difficulty of authoring is to take advantage of a semantic desktop, assuming authors have a lot of relevant information on their desktop. An important consideration is the evolvement of data on the semantic desktop. Malleable schemas are a way of dealing with this, not relying on exact knowledge of in according to what schema the data is stored.
In our research we are currently using the AHA! and Beagle++ systems and (further) developing the MOT++ system. An online version of this systems can be found here . The enricher application needed for making the connection with a semantic desktop setup can be found here
The research is conducted within the Prolearn framework.
If you have any problems or questions, please contact Maurice Hendrix
The University of Warwick, department of Computer Science.