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HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Heuristic Evaluations of Bioinformatics Tools: A Development Case
Heuristic evaluations are an efficient low cost method for identifying usability problems in a biomedical research tool. Combining the results of these evaluations with findings fr...
Barbara Mirel, Zach Wright
UM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Semantically-Enhanced Ubiquitous User Modeling
Semantically-enhanced Ubiquitous User Modeling aims at the management of distributed user models and the integration into ontologies to share user information amongst adaptive appl...
Till Plumbaum
COGSCI
2004
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13 years 4 months ago
Generation and evaluation of user tailored responses in multimodal dialogue
When people engage in conversation, they tailor their utterances to their conversational partners, whether these partners are other humans or computational systems. This tailoring...
Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker, Amanda Stent, ...
LWA
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Transparent User Modeling for a Mobile Personal Assistant
User models (UM)the explicit representation of all relevant aspects of a user's preferences, beliefs, etc. form the basis of virtually all adaptive systems. While early appro...
Mathias Bauer
HCI
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Distributed user modelling for universal information access
In a distributed multi-agent based software environment, the traditional monolithic user model ceases to exist and is replaced by user model fragments, developed by the various so...
Julita Vassileva
LWA
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Towards the Adaptation of Scientific Course Material powered by Communities of Practice
Several applications support the adaptation of course material. Even though most of these systems allow to specify interaction preferences or even employ user modeling techniques,...
Christine Müller
LWA
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Fine-grained user models by means of asynchronous web technologies
Although asynchronous HTTP technologies have grown in importance with the emergence of Web 2.0, most web-based Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (AHS) still exclusively use serverside m...
David Hauger
ACL
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Using Automatically Transcribed Dialogs to Learn User Models in a Spoken Dialog System
We use an EM algorithm to learn user models in a spoken dialog system. Our method requires automatically transcribed (with ASR) dialog corpora, plus a model of transcription error...
Umar Syed, Jason Williams
IUI
1997
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Helping Users Think in Three Dimensions: Steps Toward Incorporating Spatial Cognition in User Modelling
Historically, efforts at user modelling in educational systems have tended to employ knowledge representations in which symbolic (or "linguistic") cognition is emphasize...
Michael Eisenberg, Ann Nishioka, M. E. Schreiner
AH
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
An Agent-Based Approach to Adaptive Hypermedia Using a Link Service
This paper describes an approach to adaptive hypermedia by incorporating linkbases into an agent-based system (PAADS). The agents are built on top of an agent framework developed a...
Christopher Bailey, Wendy Hall