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UM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
What Do Academic Users Really Want from an Adaptive Learning System?
When developing an Adaptive Learning System (ALS), users are generally consulted (if at all) towards the end of the development cycle. This can limit users’ feedback to the chara...
Martin Harrigan, Milos Kravcik, Christina Steiner,...
UM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
User Modeling of Disabled Persons for Generating Instructions to Medical First Responders
To provide personalized health recommendations concerning disabled persons, an adaptive system needs a detailed user model that can account for the peculiar aspects of the many exi...
Luca Chittaro, Roberto Ranon, Luca De Marco, Augus...
UM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Adaptive Clustering of Search Results
Clustering of search results has been shown to be advantageous over the simple list presentation of search results. However, in most clustering interfaces, the clusters are not ada...
Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai, Nicholas J. Belkin
UM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
How Users Perceive and Appraise Personalized Recommendations
Abstract. Traditional websites have long relied on users revealing their preferences explicitly through direct manipulation interfaces. However recent recommender systems have gone...
Nicolas Jones, Pearl Pu, Li Chen
UM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Recognition of Users' Activities Using Constraint Satisfaction
Ideally designed software allow users to explore and pursue interleaving plans, making it challenging to automatically recognize user interactions. The recognition algorithms prese...
Swapna Reddy, Ya'akov Gal, Stuart M. Shieber
UM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Filtering Fitness Trail Content Generated by Mobile Users
This paper proposes a novel trail sharing system for mobile devices that deals with context information collected by sensors, as well as users’ personal opinions (e.g., landscape...
Fabio Buttussi, Luca Chittaro, Daniele Nadalutti
UM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Measurement Uncertainty on User Models in Spatial Domains
Abstract. This paper examines the problem of uncertainty due to instrumentation in user modeling systems within spatial domains. We consider the uncertainty of inferring a user’s...
Daniel F. Schmidt, Ingrid Zukerman, David W. Albre...
UM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
What Have the Neighbours Ever Done for Us? A Collaborative Filtering Perspective
Collaborative filtering (CF) techniques have proved to be a powerful and popular component of modern recommender systems. Common approaches such as user-based and item-based metho...
Rachael Rafter, Michael P. O'Mahony, Neil J. Hurle...
TLCA
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Lexicographic Path Induction
Abstract. Programming languages theory is full of problems that reduce to proving the consistency of a logic, such as the normalization of typed lambda-calculi, the decidability of...
Jeffrey Sarnat, Carsten Schürmann
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Processing OWL2 Ontologies using Thea: An Application of Logic Programming
Traditional object-oriented programming languages can be difficult to use when working with ontologies, leading to the creation of domain-specific languages designed specifically...
Vangelis Vassiliadis, Jan Wielemaker, Chris Mungal...