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UM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
User Modeling of Disabled Persons for Generating Instructions to Medical First Responders
To provide personalized health recommendations concerning disabled persons, an adaptive system needs a detailed user model that can account for the peculiar aspects of the many exi...
Luca Chittaro, Roberto Ranon, Luca De Marco, Augus...
LWA
2008
13 years 5 months ago
An Exploratory Study of User Goals and Strategies in Podcast Search
We report on an exploratory, qualitative user study designed to identify users' goals underlying podcast search, the strategies used to gain access to podcasts, and how curre...
Jana Besser, Katja Hofmann, Martha Larson
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
An evaluation of a meal planning system: ease of use and perceived usefulness
Unhealthy eating is an increasingly important problem in the western society. Our approach to this problem is to provide a meal planning system giving recommendations of suitable ...
Johan Aberg
RECSYS
2009
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Acceptance issues of personality-based recommender systems
To understand users’ acceptance of the emerging trend of personality-based recommenders (PBR), we evaluated an existing PBR using the technology acceptance model (TAM). We also ...
Rong Hu, Pearl Pu
IVA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Judging Laura: Perceived Qualities of a Mediated Human Versus an Embodied Agent
Increasingly, embodied agents take over tasks which are traditionally performed by humans. But how do users perceive these embodied agents? In this paper, we describe an experiment...
Renate ten Ham, Mariët Theune, Ard Heuvelman,...