Context-awareness for information retrieval is challenging problem as information about the users current situation is rarely available. If such information would be available, re...
Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...
: A distributed service to model and control contextual information in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments is presented in this paper. We introduce the general user model ...
A multimodal user interface allows users to communicate with computers using multiple modalities, such as a mouse, a keyboard or voice, in various combined ways. This paper discus...
Adpating to user context versus adapting to individual user features or behaviour patterns has been a topic of recent discussion. We believe both types of adaptation are valuable a...
Golha Sharifi, Ralph Deters, Julita Vassileva, Sus...