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UM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Exploiting Evidence Analysis in Plan Recognition
Information graphics, such as bar charts and line graphs, that appear in popular media generally have a message that they are intended to convey. We have developed a novel plan inf...
Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling Preferences in a Distributed Recommender System
Abstract. A good way to help users finding relevant items on document platforms consists in suggesting content in accordance with their preferences. When implementing such a recom...
Sylvain Castagnos, Anne Boyer
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A User Independent, Biosignal Based, Emotion Recognition Method
A physiological signal based emotion recognition method, for the assessment of three emotional classes: happiness, disgust and fear, is presented. Our approach consists of four ste...
Georgios Rigas, C. D. Katsis, George Ganiatsas, Di...
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling the Acquisition of Fluent Skill in Educational Action Games
There has been increasing interest in using games for education, but little investigation of how to model student learning within games [cf. 6]. We investigate how existing techniq...
Ryan Shaun Joazeiro de Baker, M. P. Jacob Habgood,...
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Eliciting Adaptation Knowledge from On-Line Tutors to Increase Motivation
In the classroom, teachers know how to motivate their students and how to exploit this knowledge to adapt or optimize their instruction when a student shows signs of demotivation. ...
Teresa Hurley, Stephan Weibelzahl
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Mobile Opportunistic Planning: Methods and Models
Abstract. We present a study exploring the promise of developing computational systems to support the discovery and execution of opportunistic activities in mobile settings. We int...
Eric Horvitz, Paul Koch, Muru Subramani
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Encouraging Contributions to Online Communities with Personalization and Incentives
Increasingly, online systems depend on user contributions such as posts, ratings, tags, and comments. Many of these systems wish to encourage broader participation or the contribut...
F. Maxwell Harper
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Tailoring and the Efficiency of Information Seeking
Abstract. We present an empirical study assessing the impact of tailoring on information seeking tasks. Our aim was to evaluate whether providing tailored information would help pe...
Nathalie Colineau, Cécile Paris
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Eliciting Motivation Knowledge from Log Files Towards Motivation Diagnosis for Adaptive Systems
Motivation is well-known for its importance in learning and its influence on cognitive processes. Adaptive systems would greatly benefit from having a user model of the learner’s...
Mihaela Cocea, Stephan Weibelzahl
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Understanding the Utility of Rationale in a Mixed-Initiative System for GUI Customization
In this paper, we investigate the utility of providing users with the system’s rationale in a mixed-initiative system for GUI customization. An evaluation comparing a version of ...
Andrea Bunt, Joanna McGrenere, Cristina Conati