Links are one of the most important means for navigation in the World Wide Web. However, the visualization of and the interaction with Web links have been scarcely explored, although Links have severe implications on the appearance and usability of Web pages and the World Wide Web as such.

This paper presents a set of requirements for media fragment integration, describes how standards currently meet some of these requirements and proposes extensions to these standards for meeting remaining requirements

Multimedia presentation generation has to be able to balance the functional aspects of a presentation that address the information needs of the user, and its aesthetic form. We demonstrate our approach using automatic colour design for which we integrate relevant aspects of colour theory. Colour selection takes the relative importance of form and function into account through the use of weights in the generation process. We do not provide a definition of the relative importance of form versus function, but seek to explore the roles of subjective elements in the generation process.

Context-aware computing focuses on developing systems which through different kinds of sensory systems are able to collect information about the physical environment in order to, more or less automatically, adapt data and behavior to the user’s current context. The aim is to create systems that, rather than solely depend on explicit user input, can react to changes in the use-context and thereby be easier to use. Contextualization of information is also inherent to hypermedia. Through links and other structuring mechanisms hypermedia has striven to support users in accessing and understanding information in different contexts. Unfortunately, hypermedia has traditionally been confined to structuring digital material, and the associations which we as humans are able to maintain between (digital) information and physical entities, have therefore largely been unsupported. But as computational power moves beyond the desktop and into the physical environments we live and work in, it may be worthwhile to support these digital-physical relationships. The thesis addresses the definition, design and requirements for context-aware mobile

In this paper we describe an approach to adaptive navigation assistance that is meant to enhance a user’s information scent. The navigation assistance is composed of a combination of predictive user navigation modeling and common information retrieval methods. Besides assistance in forward browsing, the assistant helps users in deciding when to switch to searching or backtracking, while taking their navigation preferences into account. 1

reported in this thesis has been carried out under the auspices of SIKS, the Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems. The research reported in this thesis was carried out

In this paper, we introduce a client-platform independent mechanism for implementing new linking standards.

reported in this thesis has been carried out under the auspices of SIKS, the Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems. The research reported in this thesis was carried out