Designing mobile-aware adaptive hypermedia
Toni Alatalo, Janne Peräaho · 2001
Mobile use presents new challenges for hypermedia design. One of the key elements in mobile-aware hypermedia is adapting to users' situations, but somewhat differently than in the traditional user-modelling centric view of adaptive hypermedia. This paper presents an example of designing new navigational structures for an existing Web service, with the mobile use in mind. A previously presented modelling method for designing adaptive hypermedia is used in the specifications. The system's adaptation to location and time information - but not to any personal user specific properties - is modelled and implemented as a proof of concept demo, as a new layer on top of the existing service. The usefulness of the previously introduced modelling method and other approaches to designing adaptive hypermedia in this context are discussed, and lessons learned from the test and questions for future work pointed out in conclusion.