Personal informatics applications and visualizations are increasingly available for amateur endurance athletes to record and monitor their performance and training. This information can be valuable for self-coached athletes or coaches of amateur athletes who tailor training programs based on this data. Despite this, it is not clear if the information provided by such tools map to the real needs...

Finding a place of interest (e.g. a restaurant, hotel, or attraction) is often related to a group information need, however, the actual multi-party collaboration in such searches has not been explored, and little is known about its significance and related practices. We surveyed 100 computer science students and found that 94% (of respondents) searched for places online; 87% had done so as part...

In application areas like personal information agents and intelligent tutoring systems, user models typically maintain sophisticated representations of personal interest profiles and knowledge / skill levels. These representations can be utilized for effective information retrieval and filtering as well as for personalized information presentation. Information delivery services within organizat...

In this demonstration, we bring the online selling process closer to the customer experience in a retailing store. For this purpose, we demonstrate a virtual selling agent that is proactive and adaptive. Our proactive dialogical agent initiates the dialogue and drives the inquiring process for collecting information in order to make relevant proposals. Moreover, we will see that our virtual sel...

Prototypes of interactive computer systems have been built that can begin to detect and label aspects of human emotional expression, and that respond to users experiencing frustration and other negative emotions with emotionally supportive interactions, demonstrating components of human skills such as active listening, empathy, and sympathy. These working systems support the prediction that a c...

The personal health information management (PHIM) practices and needs of older adults are poorly understood. We describe initial results from the UW SOARING project (Studying Older Adults & Researching Information Needs and Goals), a participatory design investigation of PHIM in older adults (60 years and older). We conducted in-depth interviews with older adults (n=74) living in a variety of r...

A record of current medications as well as prior medication history is useful if not vital information to an individual. Such information needs to be easily accessible, yet adequately protected. MyMedicationList is a prototype application developed at the National Library of Medicine that helps users manage their medication lists and make the records readily available when needed. This personal...

In application areas like personal information agents user models typically maintain sophisticated representations of personal interest profiles. These representations can be utilized for personalized information presentation. Information support in Organizational Memories mainly address the same goals, but prevalently derive actual information needs from task and role specific information need...

The purpose of AmbieSense is to provide personalised, contextsensitive information to the mobile user. It is about augmenting digital information to physical objects, rooms, and areas. The aim is to provide relevant information to the right user and situation. Digital content is distributed from the surroundings and onto your mobile phone. An ambient information environment is provided by a com...

Presentations on public information systems, like a large screen in a museum, usually cannot support heterogeneous user groups appropriately, since they offer just a single channel of information. In order to support these groups with mixed interests, a more complex presentation method needs to be used. The method proposed in this paper combines a large stationary presentation system with sever...