An adaptive hypertext system can be useful if a system is expected to be used by people with various levels of background knowledge and different requirements and expectations. There are three principal areas where adaptive hypertext has been employed. These are on-line help systems, document retrieval systems and tutoring systems. A number of such adaptive hypertext systems are now discussed with an emphasis on the user / student model aspects and, in particular, how these models are maintained. The adaptation that each system incorporates is described along with the various methods that are employed to update the user / student models that the systems contain.
The reviewed systems are :
Authored by Serengul Smith
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serengul1@mdx.ac.uk
School of Computing Science Middlesex University
Revised: September 1998