Information Foraging (IF) Theory addresses user strategies and technology for seeking, gathering, and using on-line information. We present IF-based models and evaluations of two ...
This article explores how to develop complex data driven user models that go beyond the bag of words model and topical relevance. We propose to learn from rich user specific info...
The objective of this research is the exploration how affective knowledge used in global controlling mechanisms for public information systems with lifelike presentation agents wil...
Most question answering (QA) and information retrieval (IR) systems are insensitive to different users' needs and preferences, and also to the existence of multiple, complex ...
The problem today is that users are expected to remember multiple user names and passwords for different domains when accessing the Internet. Identity management solutions seek to...