Interactive adaptation of Intranet newsletters

A new approach to edit and adapt information from the web, edited adaptive hypermedia, is proposed, which combines human expertise with machine intelligence and is exemplified with an application at a Swedish company: newsletter distribution on an Intranet.

Abstract

: We propose a new approach to edit and adapt information from the web. The advantage of the proposed approach, edited adaptive hypermedia, is that it combines human expertise with machine intelligence. A user-adaptive WWW browser communicates with an information broker environment, in which information can be retrieved and structured to fit the target user group or groups. We exemplify the approach with an application at a Swedish company: newsletter distribution on an Intranet. The information is adapted at the reader side, based on annotations on each article from the newsletters. Keywords: adaptivity, Intranet, information brokering, edited hypermedia. 1. Background Adaptive hypermedia has been proposed as a means for tackling problems that users encounter with information overflow and navigation through large information spaces and ordinary hypermedia (Brusilovsky 1996, Höök et al. 1996). Adaptive hypermedia takes into account that users vary in knowledge, cognitive skills and ...