Adaptive hypermedia is an area of research at the crossroads of hypermedia and adaptive systems. AH systems can adapt hypermedia content to a user's knowledge and goals, or can suggest relevant hyperlinks to follow. AH systems are now used in several application areas where the hyperspace is reasonably large and where users of a hypermedia application may have significantly different goals, knowledge and backgrounds.
Examples are educational hypermedia, on-line help, and information retrieval systems.
This talk will provide a brief survey of adaptive hypermedia research. It will present techniques that have been evaluated in an experimental study and shown to be effective. I will also describe adaptive link annotation techniques developed and studied by our group. We have applied our techniques to educational hypermedia on the World-Wide Web. Our experiments demonstrated several benefits to performing adaptive annotation.