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UM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Cross-Domain Mediation in Collaborative Filtering
One of the main problems of collaborative filtering recommenders is the sparsity of the ratings in the users-items matrix, and its negative effect on the prediction accuracy. This ...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci
UM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Visual Attention in Open Learner Model Presentations: An Eye-Tracking Investigation
Using an eye-tracker, this paper investigates the information that learners visually attend to in their open learner model, and the degree to which this is related to the method of...
Susan Bull, Neil Cooke, Andrew Mabbott
UM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Conceptualizing Student Models for ICALL
Student models for Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) have largely focused on the acquisition of grammatical structures. In this paper, we motivate a broader p...
Luiz Amaral, Detmar Meurers
UM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluating a Simulated Student Using Real Students Data for Training and Testing
: SimStudent is a machine-learning agent that learns cognitive skills by demonstration. It was originally developed as a building block of the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT...
Noboru Matsuda, William W. Cohen, Jonathan Sewall,...
UM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Effect of Model Granularity on Student Performance Prediction Using Bayesian Networks
A standing question in the field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems and User Modeling in general is what is the appropriate level of model granularity (how many skills to model) and h...
Zachary A. Pardos, Neil T. Heffernan, Brigham Ande...
UM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
To Share or Not to Share: Supporting the User Decision in Mobile Social Software Applications
User’s privacy concerns represent one of the most serious obstacles to the wide adoption of mobile social software applications. In this paper, we introduce a conceptual model wh...
Giuseppe Lugano, Pertti Saariluoma
UM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Push-Poll Recommender System: Supporting Word of Mouth
Abstract. Recommender systems produce social networks as a side effect of predicting what users will like. However, the potential for these social networks to aid in recommending i...
Andrew Webster, Julita Vassileva
UM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Respecting Users' Individual Privacy Constraints in Web Personalization
Web personalization has demonstrated to be advantageous for both online customers and vendors. However, its benefits may be severely counteracted by privacy constraints. Personaliz...
Yang Wang 0005, Alfred Kobsa
UM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
What's in a Step? Toward General, Abstract Representations of Tutoring System Log Data
Kurt VanLehn, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Alida Skogshol...
UM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: An Evaluation of the Push Approach to Evidence Propagation
Despite the growing popularity of user modeling servers, little attention has been paid to optimizing and evaluating the performance of these servers. We argue that implementation ...
Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, Vladimir Zado...