Preference elicitation for interface optimization

Decision-theoretic optimization is becoming a popular tool in the user interface community, but creating accurate cost (or utility) functions has become a bottleneck — in most cases the numerous parameters of these functions are chosen manually, which is a tedious and error-prone process. This paper describes ARNAULD, a general interactive tool for eliciting user preferences concerning concrete outcomes and using this feedback to automatically learn a factored cost function. We empirically evaluate our machine learning algorithm and two automatic query generation approaches and report on an informal user study. ACM Classification D.2.2 [Design Tools and Techniques]:

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: UIST
• Authors: Krzysztof Gajos, Daniel S. Weld
• Keywords: Factored Cost Function, Informal User Study, UIST 2005, User Interface Community