Towards more efficient generic semantic authoring for adaptive hypermedia

Personalization of delivery has always been important in any consumer industry. With the growth of the WWW into our everyday life, information has become increasingly a consumer commodity. For instance, in educational domain, today's learners expect high quality, relevant educational materials, delivered to them in a timely and appropriate manner. Adaptive hypermedia (AH) systems aim to personalise the delivery of materials to the needs of the user -- both to their stated requirements as well as to their less obvious desires. This paper describes steps taken towards creating more efficient generic semantic authoring for adaptive hypermedia, starting from an existing framework, LAOS, an existing system, MOT, and evaluation results thereof. This system is to make use of existing appropriate Semantic Web techniques to ensure the level of generality and convertibility to different adaptive (educational) hypermedia delivery engines. Some improvements were implemented and a preliminary pilot usability study was performed, as reported in this paper