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UM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Model of Temporally Changing User Behaviors in a Deployed Spoken Dialogue System
Abstract. User behaviors on a system vary not only among individuals but also within the same user when he/she gains experience on the system. We empirically investigated how indiv...
Kazunori Komatani, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hiroshi G. Ok...
UM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
PerspectiveSpace: Opinion Modeling with Dimensionality Reduction
Abstract. Words mean different things to different people, and capturing these differences is often a subtle art. These differences are often “a matter of perspective,” and...
Jason B. Alonso, Catherine Havasi, Henry Lieberman
UM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Non-intrusive Personalisation of the Museum Experience
Abstract. The vast amount of information presented in museums is often overwhelming to a visitor, making it difficult to select personally interesting exhibits. Advances in mobile...
Fabian Bohnert, Ingrid Zukerman
UM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Narcissus: Group and Individual Models to Support Small Group Work
Long term group work by small teams is a central part of many learning and workplace activities. Widespread group support tools such as wikis, version control systems and issue tra...
Kimberley Upton, Judy Kay
UM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Context-Dependent Personalised Feedback Prioritisation in Exploratory Learning for Mathematical Generalisation
Abstract. In this paper we address the problem of prioritising feedback on the basis of multiple heterogeneous pieces of information in exploratory learning. The problem arises whe...
Mihaela Cocea, George D. Magoulas
UM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Capturing the User's Reading Context for Tailoring Summaries
The web has become a major source of information to learn about a topic. With the continuous growth of information and its high connectivity, it is hard to follow only the links th...
Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan
UM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
What Do Academic Users Really Want from an Adaptive Learning System?
When developing an Adaptive Learning System (ALS), users are generally consulted (if at all) towards the end of the development cycle. This can limit users’ feedback to the chara...
Martin Harrigan, Milos Kravcik, Christina Steiner,...
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...
UM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptive Clustering of Search Results
Clustering of search results has been shown to be advantageous over the simple list presentation of search results. However, in most clustering interfaces, the clusters are not ada...
Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai, Nicholas J. Belkin
UM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
How Users Perceive and Appraise Personalized Recommendations
Abstract. Traditional websites have long relied on users revealing their preferences explicitly through direct manipulation interfaces. However recent recommender systems have gone...
Nicolas Jones, Pearl Pu, Li Chen