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

Panchit Longpradit, Wendy Hall, Robert J. Walters, Lester Gilbert, Quintin Gee, Gary B. Wills
2008 New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia  
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
more » ... ation. 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.
doi:10.1080/13614560802316095 fatcat:v3nms3ztt5cxpax7sd25ryogti