Recent technological developments enabled users to create detailed log files containing their everyday activities. These log files, also referred to as lifelogs, open gates for interesting new research challenges, such as the identification of long-term and short-term user interests and behaviour. In the context of this workshop, we focus on an emerging challenge, namely the creation of lifelon...

With the explosion of devices, computing platforms, contextual conditions, user interfaces become more confronted to a need to be adapted to multiple configurations of the context of use. In the past, many techniques were developed to perform a task analysis for obtaining a single user interface that is adapted for a single context of use. As this user interface may become unusable for other co...

Conventional data analytics platforms are not adequate to be applied in the management of emergency situations. The 3V the usually characterize big data (volume, variety, velocity) along with the issue of integrating information coming from heterogeneous networks require the development of new systems. In this paper we provide the design of a data analytics platform that we are developing aroun...

This paper describes an adaptive approach to dialogue management in spoken dialogue systems. The system maintains a user model, in which assumptions about the user’s expectations of the system are recorded. Whenever recognition errors occur, the dialogue manager drops assumptions from the user model, and adapts its behaviour accordingly. The system uses a hierarchical slot structure that allows...

A Graphical User Interface (GUI) is the most widely used method whereby information systems interact with users. According to ACM Computing Surveys, on average, more than 45% of software code in a software application is dedicated to the GUI. However, GUI testing is extremely expensive. In unit testing, 10,000 cases can often be automatically tested within a minute whereas, in GUI testing, 10,0...

Ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp) increases in proliferation. Multiple and ever growing in numbers, computational devices are now at the users' disposal throughout the physical environment, while simultaneously being effectively invisible. Consequently, a significant challenge is service discovery. Services may for instance be physical, such as printing a document, or virtual, such as communicatin...

This paper presents an approach for modelling interactions between users and systems in the Unifying Theories of Programming. Working in the predicate calculus, we outline generic techniques for calculating a user’s observations of a system and, in turn, for identifying the information that a user can deduce about the system’s behaviour from those observations. To demonstrate how this approach ...

Geno3D (http://geno3d-pbil.ibcp.fr) is an automatic web server for protein molecular modelling. Starting with a query protein sequence, the server performs the homology modelling in six successive steps: (i) identify homologous proteins with known 3D structures by using PSI-BLAST; (ii) provide the user all potential templates through a very convenient user interface for target selection; (iii) ...

User modelling and personalisation are the key aspects of recommender systems in terms of recommendation quality. While being very efficient and designed to work with huge amounts of data, present recommender systems often lack the facility of user integration when it comes to feedback and direct user modelling. In this paper we describe ERASP, an add-on to existing recommender systems which us...

We describe a method of assessing the implications for human error on user interface design of safety-critical systems. In previous work we have proposed taxonomy of influencing factors that contribute to error. In this paper, components of the taxonomy are combined into a mathematical and causal model for error, represented as a Bayesian Belief Net (BBN). The BBN quantifies error influences ar...