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UM
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Task-Based User Modelling for Knowledge Work Support
A Knowledge Worker (KW) uses her computer to perform different tasks for which she gathers and uses information from disparate sources such as the Web and e-mail, and creates new ...
Charlie Abela, Chris Staff, Siegfried Handschuh
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The advisor robot: tracing people's mental model from a robot's physical attributes
Humanoid robots offer many physical design choices such as voice frequency and head dimensions. We used hierarchical statistical mediation analysis to trace differences in people...
Aaron Powers, Sara B. Kiesler
SOUPS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 hour ago
Revealing hidden context: improving mental models of personal firewall users
The Windows Vista personal firewall provides its diverse users with a basic interface that hides many operational details. However, concealing the impact of network context on th...
Fahimeh Raja, Kirstie Hawkey, Konstantin Beznosov
EICS
2009
ACM
14 years 9 hour ago
A bisimulation-based approach to the analysis of human-computer interaction
This paper discusses the use of formal methods for analysing human-computer interaction. We focus on the mode confusion problem that arises whenever the user thinks that the syste...
Sébastien Combéfis, Charles Pecheur