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UM
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Driver Destination Models
Predictive models of destinations represent an opportunity in the context of the increasing availability and sophistication of in-car driving aids. We present analyses of driversâ€...
John Krumm, Eric Horvitz
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Principles of Lifelong Learning for Predictive User Modeling
Predictive user models often require a phase of effortful supervised training where cases are tagged with labels that represent the status of unobservable variables. We formulate a...
Ashish Kapoor, Eric Horvitz
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Maximizing the Utility of Situated Public Displays
Jörg Müller, Antonio Krüger, Tsvi K...
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Conversations Amidst Computing: A Study of Interruptions and Recovery of Task Activity
We present results from a field study investigating the influence of conversations on the multitasking behavior of computer users. We report on several findings, including the timi...
Shamsi T. Iqbal, Eric Horvitz
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Preference-Based Organization Interfaces: Aiding User Critiques in Recommender Systems
Users’ critiques to the current recommendation form a crucial feedback mechanism for refining their preference models and improving a system’s accuracy in recommendations that ...
Li Chen, Pearl Pu
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Practical Activity Capture Framework for Personal, Lifetime User Modeling
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of capturing rich, longterm personal activity logs of users’ interactions with their workstations, for the purpose of deriving predicti...
Max Van Kleek, Howard E. Shrobe
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Feature-Weighted User Model for Recommender Systems
Recommender systems are gaining widespread acceptance in e-commerce applications to confront the “information overload” problem. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a successful re...
Panagiotis Symeonidis, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Yann...
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Users in Volatile Communities: Studying Active Participation and Community Evolution
Active participation of a person in a community is a powerful indicator of the person's interests, preferences, beliefs and (often) social and demographic context. Community m...
Tanja Falkowski, Myra Spiliopoulou
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Capturing User Interests by Both Exploitation and Exploration
Personalization is one of the important research issues in the areas of information retrieval and Web search. Providing personalized services that are tailored toward the speciïŹc...
Ka Cheung Sia, Shenghuo Zhu, Yun Chi, Koji Hino, B...