Proposed Group: Adaptation and Personalization Community Group

The Adaptation and Personalization Community Group has been proposed by Adam Sobieski:

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.

You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of 5 supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.

Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team