We now have full official approval of UM2001 and HT'01 for this workshop. In an increasing number of application areas, including but not limited to education, e-business, culture, tourism and news, the need for automated personalization is being acknowledged. The navigational freedom in conventional hypermedia leads to comprehension and orientation problems. As a result, users are not finding the information they need. Starting in the early 1990's, several research teams began to investigate ways of modeling features of individual users and groups of users to create hypermedia systems for a variety of information systems applications that would adapt to these different features.
Adaptation is done both to the information content and to the link structure.
Adaptive hypermedia has been the topic of a number of workshops, some emphasizing the hypermedia aspects, and some emphasizing the user modeling aspects. The expanding research area of adaptive hypermedia has also led to the start of a series of International Conferences on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems . The first conference was held in Trento, Italy, in August 2000. The second conference will be held in the summer of 2002, at a location that is still to be decided. In the meantime, researchers in the field of Adaptive Hypermedia are continuing to invent, study and evaluate new adaptive hypermedia techniques and applications.