Call for Participation in Adaptation and Personalization Community Group
The Adaptation and Personalization Community Group has been launched:
Today, beyond language preferences, there are few ways for users to express fine-grained content preferences to Web servers for them to adapt, personalize, or customize content. Without user-preference tools, sites like simple.wikipedia.org resort to providing separate URLs instead of providing different views of content for the primary URL.
It would both benefit users and provide websites with new opportunities to better meet users’ needs if users could express a greater number of content-customization preferences such as reading level, language fluency, and background knowledge. Artificial intelligence is making it easier for websites to customize content, creating new opportunities to meet finer-grained preferences.
The mission of this group is to explore and discuss mechanisms for users to express content-customization preferences. This group will explore and discuss topics including artificial intelligence, adaptive hypermedia, adaptive explanation, adaptive learning, adaptive instructional systems, and user modeling.
This group may publish Specifications.
In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account. Please note, however, that W3C Membership is not required to join a Community Group.
This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2026-03-25 by Adam Sobieski. The following people supported its creation: Aldo Gangemi, Adam Sobieski, Milton Ponson, Frances Gillis-Webber and Wolfgang Wimmer. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.
The group must now choose a chair. Read more about how to get started in a new group and good practice for running a group.
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Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team