Adaptive interfaces for web museum applications: the virtual marble museum

If we consider most museums applications accessible through the Web, we can notice a lack of support able to adapt to the different information needs that different users may have regarding a certain topic. Adaptive support, by which an application provides different information taking into account the users' interactions, can give useful assistance. In particular, we focus our attention on how to obtain adaptable and adaptive web museum interfaces using the web site for the Marble Museum (Carrara, Italy), which we have designed and developed, as a source of examples for our discussion of possible solutions.