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1 POP: PUSH Operational Prototype, developed in the PUSH (Plan- and User Sensitive Help) project.

2 Ellemtel Utvecklings AB was in December 1995 reshaped, and the group we co-operated with is now within Ericsson Utvecklings AB.

3 A hotword is a marked word in the hypertext that, when clicked on, will be a link to another node or part of the text or graphics.

4 Our hotlists are a variant of hotwords. Rather than causing a jump to another page, clicking on a hotlist will render a list of follow-up questions that the user can choose from.

5 An adaptable design is such that it allows the user to redefine and change it.

6 Some researchers make a distinction between adaptive systems and intelligent interfaces, e.g. Kühme et al, (1992). In this thesis we shall not make any distinction, and the concepts may be used interchangeably.

7 KN-AHS is not a simple overlay model, is also uses stereotypes and inheritance between those stereotypes. KN-AHS has furthermore moved the whole user model to into a separate system, BGP-MS.

8 Though adaptive hypermedia ideas were preconceived already by Ted Nelson, (1971), who also coined the expression stretchtext.

9 Brusilovsky (1996) differentiates between four different kinds as he divides this category into those which are displayed as maps and those which are displayed as a list of hotwords.

10 We shall use two processes from subD (subsystem Development) as example processes throughout the thesis: the ideal object modelling (iom) process and the real object modelling (rom) process.

11 Starting from here we shall keep referring to the principles and concepts needed in order to understand SDP as the ”general concepts”, and we distinguish those from, for example, the names of processes and object types.

12 The local SSN representatives keep contacts with the developers and experts of SDP and act as local experts.

13 In fact, projects that are managed by somebody experienced in SDP will sometimes employ this method, which means that other project members who are less experienced in SDP will also work in this fashion.

14 The concept ”document” is replaced by IEs and reports in SDP. IEs are entities that can be used in combination to create reports. So, by changing an IE, all reports depending upon it will also be changed.

15 The user can choose to resize the window as they wish. In this example, the window has the size it had initially when the user entered the system in the final study described in chapter six of this thesis.

16 Frames are subparts of the Navigator application window that can be scrolled and resized independently of each other and that each contain a web page.

17 Our initial intention was to make the hotlists into pop-up menus. In the current version of Netscape this is not possible.

18 Unfortunately, we were not able to implement the arrows that should go between the objects in the two graphs. There should be arrows going left to right and top to bottom. Some of these arrows should be named with what kind of relationship they denote.

19 As discussed during Mark Maybury’s tutorial during the Fourth International Conference on User Modelling in Hawaii, 1996, ”User Modelling and Multimedia : User Adapted Multimedia Interaction”.

20 The example is taken from Aristotle: "The Politics".

21 CGI, Common Gateway Interface.

22 This was pointed out to me by Åsa Rudström.

23 DRUM: Diagnostic Recorder for Usability Measurement.

24 As the adaptive system sometimes did not adapt correctly, we base our calculations on how the system had adapted in each case.

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