Article: Identifying and using hypermedia browsing patterns.

Hypermedia offers benefits for users who wish to find information and users who wish to learn about a particular topic (Jonassen & Grabinger, 1991). However, hypermedia is also plagued by drawbacks that were identified early in its inception (Conklin, 1987) but which are still present (Theng & Thimbleby, 1998). Recent hypermedia research has focused on alleviating one of the classic problems of hypermedia, the problem of the user becoming lost while using it. One such approach is called Adaptive-Hypermedia (AH), and seeks to reduce the navigation burden upon the user by removing links that are not useful (Brusilovsky, 1996). However, AH relies upon extracting information ...

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