So far, culture has played a minor role in the design of software. Our experience with imbuto, a program designed for Rwandan agricultural advisors, has shown that cultural adaptat...
The amount of user generated content on the Web is growing and identifying high quality content in a timely manner has become a problem. Many forums rely on its users to manually r...
Kevin Chai, Chen Wu, Vidyasagar Potdar, Pedram Hay...
The development of intelligent assistants has largely benefited from the adoption of decision-theoretic (DT) approaches that enable an agent to reason and account for the uncertai...
Bowen Hui, Sean Gustafson, Pourang Irani, Craig Bo...
In our barge-in-able spoken dialogue system, the user's behaviors such as barge-in timing and utterance expressions vary according to his/her characteristics and situations. ...
Work-integrated learning (WIL) poses unique challenges for user model design: on the one hand users’ knowledge levels need to be determined based on their work activities – tes...