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UM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Task-Oriented Web User Modeling for Recommendation
Abstract. We propose an approach for modeling the navigational behavior of Web users based on task-level patterns. The discovered “tasks” are characterized probabilistically as...
Xin Jin, Yanzan Zhou, Bamshad Mobasher
UM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
User Modeling in a Distributed E-Learning Architecture
Abstract: This paper is focused on user modeling and adaptation in distributed ELearning systems. We describe here CUMULATE, a generic student modeling server developed for a distr...
Peter Brusilovsky, Sergey A. Sosnovsky, Olena Shch...
UM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
User Modeling Meets Usability Goals
Anthony Jameson
UM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Bayesphone: Precomputation of Context-Sensitive Policies for Inquiry and Action in Mobile Devices
Inference and decision making with probabilistic user models may be infeasible on portable devices such as cell phones. We highlight the opportunity for storing and using precomput...
Eric Horvitz, Paul Koch, Raman Sarin, Johnson Apac...
UM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Balancing Awareness and Interruption: Investigation of Notification Deferral Policies
We review experiments with bounded deferral, a method aimed at reducing the disruptiveness of incoming messages and alerts in return for bounded delays in receiving information. Bo...
Eric Horvitz, Johnson Apacible, Muru Subramani
UM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Motion-Based Adaptation of Information Services for Mobile Users
Adaptive information systems typically exploit knowledge about the user’s interests, preferences, goals etc. to determine what should be presented to the user and how this presen...
Mathias Bauer, Matthieu Deru
UM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Detecting When Students Game the System, Across Tutor Subjects and Classroom Cohorts
Building a generalizable detector of student behavior within intelligent tutoring systems presents two challenges: transferring between different cohorts of students (who may devel...
Ryan Shaun Baker, Albert T. Corbett, Kenneth R. Ko...
UM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Temporal Blurring: A Privacy Model for OMS Users
Stereotypes and clustering are some techniques for creating user models from user behavior. Yet, they possess important risks as users actions could be misinterpreted or users coul...
Rosa Alarcón, Luis A. Guerrero, José...
UM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Tailored Responses for Decision Support
Abstract. Individuals di er in the resources that they are willing to expend on information gathering and on the importance of di erent kinds of information. We have developed MADS...
Terrence Harvey, Sandra Carberry, Keith S. Decker
UM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using Similarity to Infer Meta-cognitive Behaviors During Analogical Problem Solving
We present a computational framework designed to provide adaptive support aimed at triggering learning from problem-solving activities in the presence of worked-out examples. The k...
Kasia Muldner, Cristina Conati