information systems (is) acquisition prescribes induction of information technologies (it) in the organization. at times, is is used for managing broader enterprise level issues like implementing e-business, e-commerce. enterprise level issues are addressed through adequate involvement of people in the organization which are termed as “user capabilities”. managing user capabilities is critical ...

Client-based user modelling has already been studied and clearly has its place among generic approaches to the user modelling. It is especially advantageous for lifelong user modelling as it can support the modelling in any time and any place including consideration of user privacy. Emergence of web browser extensions opens up possibilities of pure browser-based realisation of client-based user...

Current approaches to explicit user modelling are generally time consuming and tedious for the user. Oftentimes poor usability and overly long questionnaires deter the end user from reusing such modelling tools, thus only facilitating explicit personalisation once as they enter the system. This paper proposes a visual approach to user modelling resulting in the VUMA (Visual User Modelling Appro...

While user modelling has become a mature field with demonstrable research systems of great power, comparatively little progress has been made in the development of user modelling components for commercial software systems. The development of minimalist user modelling components, simplified to provide just enough assistance to a user through a pragmatic adaptive user interface, is seen by many a...

The paper presents work on user modelling of car drivers. The paper presents an implemented solution to user modelling in the car, which includes an aspect of location-based user modelling.

We investigate the use of language in food writing, specifically on restaurant menus and in customer reviews. Our approach is to build predictive models of concrete external variables, such as restaurant menu prices. We make use of a dataset of menus and customer reviews for thousands of restaurants in several U.S. cities. By focusing on prediction tasks and doing our analysis at scale, our met...

Current user interfaces are very complex with a large number of functions. Intelligent user interfaces try to help the users performing their tasks. We describe how (Horvitz et al. 1998) construct and created a user model to meet the different challenges which exist. Building on this, we first look how (Hui & Boutilier 2006) model the user’s features explicitly to suggest help based on the user...