Subject: CFP: Special issue of NRHM on adaptivity and user modeling in hypertext/hypermedia systems
From: Maria Milosavljevic <mariam@alba.nsw.cmis.CSIRO.AU>
To: elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:21:52 +1100 (EST)


The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

1998 call for submissions on the themes of 'adaptivity and user modeling
in hypertext/hypermedia systems', and 'hypermedia for museums and
cultural heritage'.

NRHM (previously Hypermedia, one of the original journals on the subject)
is a refereed annual review journal covering research on practical and
theoretical developments in hypermedia, interactive multimedia and
related technologies. The new editorial team has introduced themed
issues, each issue (normally 10-12 papers) will review and explore one or
two topical themes from a variety of perspectives. The main theme of the
1997 issue was the evaluation of hypermedia and multimedia systems.

The themes for the 1998 issue of the New Review will be:

 - hypermedia for museums and  cultural heritage
        Theme editors Douglas Tudhope and Daniel Cunliffe

 - adaptivity and user modeling in hypertext/hypermedia systems:
        Guest editors Peter Brusilovsky and Maria Milosavljevic (also see
Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia Home Page
http://www.education.uts.edu.au/projects/ah/index.html)

Papers should be submitted to the appropriate theme editors no later than
June 1st 1998. For Instructions to Authors, see
http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/~NRHM/ or contact the Editor.

Submissions are welcomed on all aspects of the two themes, including but
not restricted to:

Adaptive hypermedia

    user modeling in adaptive hypermedia
    adaptive educational hypermedia systems
    adaptive information systems
    adaptive museum hypermedia
    adaptive navigation support
    natural language techniques for dynamic hypertext generation
    adaptive WWW navigation aids
    adaptive visualization of hypertext structure
    empirical studies of adaptive hypermedia
    content adaptation in hypertext and hypermedia
    personalized information spaces
    adaptivity and adaptability in a hypermedia context
    adaptive information retrieval

Guest editors

Peter Brusilovsky - plb@cs.cmu.edu
School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213,
USA.

Maria Milosavljevic - mariam@mpce.mq.edu.au
MRI Language Technology Group,
Macquarie University,
Sydney, NSW 2109,
Australia.


Hypermedia for Museums and Cultural heritage

    hypermedia link services
    networked access
    time-varying interactive presentations
    image, audio and video databases
    navigation design
    intelligent hypermedia and agents
    web-based museum hypermedia
    spatial and temporal models
    evaluation and studies of use
    metadata and intellectual access
    thesauri and semantic representations
    copyright /IPR for digital multimedia standards

Editor

Douglas Tudhope - dstudhope@glamorgan.ac.uk
Department of Computer Studies
University of Glamorgan
Pontypridd, Mid-Glamorgan CF37 1DL
Wales, UK
fax +1443-482715
tel  +1443-482271

Associate Editor (US) Andrew Dillon - adillon@ucs.indiana.edu

Associate Editor (UK) Daniel Cunliffe - djcunlif@glamorgan.ac.uk

For subscription information, contact
Taylor Graham Publishing, 500 Chesham House,
150 Regent Street, London W1R 5FA, UK.