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An Inquiry-led Personalised Navigation System (IPNS) using multi-dimensional linkbases

An Inquiry-led Personalised Navigation System (IPNS) using multi-dimensional linkbases
An Inquiry-led Personalised Navigation System (IPNS) using multi-dimensional linkbases
The simplicity of the hypertext model behind the World Wide Web is a factor in its success, but this simplicity brings limitations. One of these limitations is embedding links in documents. Open Hypermedia addresses this by instead storing them in separate link databases. Meanwhile, the Adaptive Hypermedia approach seeks to enhance a user’s experience by inserting personalised additional content and links on the web page. However, these techniques do not offer the user any control over the adaptation. In this paper, we propose the concept of a multi-dimensional linkbase for adaptive links presentation. Links are created and stored in a single, multi-dimensional, linkbase that provides presentation links based on the user’s preferences and profile. We present a web-based system (IPNS) that implements this multi-dimensional concept for controlling its personalisation of hyperlinks. We give the results of our evaluation, which confirm that user-controlled adaptation is a satisfactory approach to providing users with control over personalization, and can alleviate the link overload problem.
Multi-dimensional linkbase, Adaptive hypermedia, Open hypermedia, Link augmentation, FOHM, Auld Linky
1361-4568
33-55
Longpradit, Panchit
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Hall, Wendy
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Walters, Robert
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Gilbert, Lester
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Gee, Quintin
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Wills, Gary
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Longpradit, Panchit
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Hall, Wendy
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Walters, Robert
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Gilbert, Lester
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Gee, Quintin
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Wills, Gary
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Longpradit, Panchit, Hall, Wendy, Walters, Robert, Gilbert, Lester, Gee, Quintin and Wills, Gary (2008) An Inquiry-led Personalised Navigation System (IPNS) using multi-dimensional linkbases. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Special Issue on Hypermedia beyond the Desktop, 14 (1), 33-55.

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The simplicity of the hypertext model behind the World Wide Web is a factor in its success, but this simplicity brings limitations. One of these limitations is embedding links in documents. Open Hypermedia addresses this by instead storing them in separate link databases. Meanwhile, the Adaptive Hypermedia approach seeks to enhance a user’s experience by inserting personalised additional content and links on the web page. However, these techniques do not offer the user any control over the adaptation. In this paper, we propose the concept of a multi-dimensional linkbase for adaptive links presentation. Links are created and stored in a single, multi-dimensional, linkbase that provides presentation links based on the user’s preferences and profile. We present a web-based system (IPNS) that implements this multi-dimensional concept for controlling its personalisation of hyperlinks. We give the results of our evaluation, which confirm that user-controlled adaptation is a satisfactory approach to providing users with control over personalization, and can alleviate the link overload problem.

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Published date: 2008
Keywords: Multi-dimensional linkbase, Adaptive hypermedia, Open hypermedia, Link augmentation, FOHM, Auld Linky
Organisations: Electronic & Software Systems

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Local EPrints ID: 265982
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/265982
ISSN: 1361-4568
PURE UUID: 65e78101-a3c0-4e60-9ab7-e86426e9a6d5
ORCID for Wendy Hall: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4327-7811
ORCID for Gary Wills: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5771-4088

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Date deposited: 19 Jun 2008 19:39
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:51

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Author: Panchit Longpradit
Author: Wendy Hall ORCID iD
Author: Robert Walters
Author: Lester Gilbert
Author: Quintin Gee
Author: Gary Wills ORCID iD

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