Computer users deal with large amounts of personal media often face problems in managing and exploring it. This paper presents Semantic Regions, rectangular regions that enable us...
Users’ personal citation collections reflect users’ interests and thus offer great potential for personalized digital services. We studied 18,120 citations in the personal co...
Nishikant Kapoor, John T. Butler, Sean M. McNee, G...
To realize personalized web services and to design adaptable systems it is necessary to have a possibility for modeling the user’s environment and preferences. A common approach...
Peter Dornbusch, Michael Fahrmair, Eiman Mohyeldin...
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
As information becomes available in increasing amounts to a wide spectrum of users, the need for a shift towards a more user-centered information access paradigm arises. We develo...