The Future of AH

So far, adaptive hypermedia (AH) have mainly been used as a didactic tool, i.e., as a tool to develop on-line educational systems, despite the potentially wider spectrum of systems they could be applied to (see in [1]). A restriction adaptive educational systems soon showed was their application domain: most systems were used to teach computer science related or anyway scientific disciplines. Attempts at extending this limitation have been made, for instance by using adaptive hypermedia to teach foreign languages [2]. But the results obtained were not always so promising for the intrinsic difficulty at modelling such a domain: at a linguistic level (syntax and semantics), at a domain-related level (in the perspective of a situated learning approach to language learning), and at a level that was focusing on the intersection between the previous two.