{"title":"User Modeling for the Internet of Things","authors":"B. Kummerfeld, J. Kay","doi":"10.1145/3079628.3079658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079658","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet-of-Things (IoT) consists of a large number of interconnected, low cost devices and the framework for managing them. While this provides the means for rich and ubiquitous personalized interaction, a key gap is the lack of support for user modeling to harness and manage personal data gathered from IoT. Our work fills this gap by creating the IoTum user modeling framework for Internet-of-Things applications. Our design goals were to make it easy for IoT application developers to use, tackling the difficulty of building ubicomp systems. At the same time, we aimed to achieve light-weight, flexible, powerful, reactive user modeling that is accountable, transparent and scrutable. Applications interact with IoTum via three primitives, 'tell' to add evidence to a user model, 'ask' to retrieve interpreted evidenced from the model and 'listen' which establishes a monitoring process which can trigger the application. The first two of these have been part of many previous user modelling frameworks, including Personis, the server by Kobsa and Fink, CUMULATE and info-bead. However, IoTum is the first user modelling framework we are aware of that supports the last of these, the 'listen', which is key to making effective use of the many existing and emerging low cost sensors of IoT. Another important aspect is that IoTum maintains provenance information in the user model, to support accountability, scrutability and explanations. There are also mechanisms to define the user model and do introspection on existing models. To demonstrate that it meets its design goals, we describe its use to build a nutrition chatbot.","PeriodicalId":216017,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115715167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Long and Short-Term Recommendations with Recurrent Neural Networks","authors":"Robin Devooght, H. Bersini","doi":"10.1145/3079628.3079670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079670","url":null,"abstract":"Recurrent neural networks have recently been successfully applied to the session-based recommendation problem, and is part of a growing interest for collaborative filtering based on sequence prediction. This new approach to recommendations reveals an aspect that was previously overlooked: the difference between short-term and long-term recommendations. In this work we characterize the full short-term/long-term profile of many collaborative filtering methods, and we show how recurrent neural networks can be steered towards better short or long-term predictions. We also show that RNNs are not only adapted to session-based collaborative filtering, but are perfectly suited for collaborative filtering on dense datasets where it outperforms traditional item recommendation algorithms.","PeriodicalId":216017,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123247849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Unified Latent Factor Model for Effective Category-Aware Recommendation","authors":"Zhu Sun, G. Guo, Jie Zhang, Chi Xu","doi":"10.1145/3079628.3079649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079649","url":null,"abstract":"Our data analysis on real-world datasets shows that user preferences are intimately related with item categories, implying the non-negligible of category information for effective recommendation. Thus, in this paper, step by step we propose a unified item-category latent factor model by considering user-category, item-category and category-category interactions. Our approach can be applied to both the situations where an item belongs to either a single category (one-to-one) or multiple categories (one-to-many). Finally, empirical studies on the real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of our approach in comparison with other counterparts.","PeriodicalId":216017,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123607234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conversational Group Recommender Systems","authors":"T. Nguyen","doi":"10.1145/3079628.3079704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079704","url":null,"abstract":"Recommending to a group of users is multifaceted as people naturally adapt to other members, and it may turn out that what they choose in a group does not fully match individual interests. Besides, it has been shown that the recommendation needs of groups go beyond the aggregation of individual preferences. In practice, it is much more difficult to predict group choices because users take into account the others' reactions and different users react to the group in different ways. Thus, in this research, we aim at exploiting an interactive and conversational approach to facilitate the group decision-making process where the complex trade-off between the satisfaction of an individual and the group as a whole typically occurs and needs to be resolved. To attain this goal, we investigate approaches that can access a group situation and autonomously learn an adaptive interaction in a specific condition of the group.","PeriodicalId":216017,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131121719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Providing Control and Transparency in a Social Recommender System for Academic Conferences","authors":"Chun-Hua Tsai, Peter Brusilovsky","doi":"10.1145/3079628.3079701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079701","url":null,"abstract":"A social recommender system aims to provide useful suggestion to the user and prevent social overload problem. Most of the research efforts are spent on push high relevant item on top of the ranked list, using a weight ensemble approach. However, we argue the ``learned'' static fusion is not enough to specific contexts. In this paper, we develop a series visual recommendation components and control panel for the user to interact with the recommendation result of an academic conference. The system offers a better recommendation transparency and user-driven fusion through recommended sources. The experiment result shows the user did fuse the different recommended sources and exploration patterns among tasks. The post-study survey is positively associated with the system and explanation function effectiveness. This finding shed light on the future research of design a recommender system with human intervention and the interface beyond the static ranked list.","PeriodicalId":216017,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127403819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Okpo, J. Masthoff, Matt Dennis, N. Beacham, Ana Ciocarlan
{"title":"Investigating the Impact of Personality and Cognitive Efficiency on the Selection of Exercises for Learners","authors":"J. Okpo, J. Masthoff, Matt Dennis, N. Beacham, Ana Ciocarlan","doi":"10.1145/3079628.3079674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079674","url":null,"abstract":"Adapting to learner characteristics is essential when selecting exercises for learners. This paper investigates how humans adapt next exercise selection to learner personality and invested mental effort to enable a future Intelligent Tutoring System to use these adaptations. Participants were presented with validated stories of a learner`s personality at polarised levels, a validated story conveying the mental effort invested in carrying out a given task and an indication of a previous performance (just passing) at a simple arithmetic exercise. Participants were also shown a selection of validated exercises of varying difficulty levels and asked to select the exercise which they thought the learner should do next. We found that overall more difficult exercises were selected for learners who used little effort than for learners who used more effort. We found that although an exercise of slightly harder difficulty remains the most popular choice in the high and low self-esteem conditions, for low self-esteem, participants picked an exercise of lower or the same difficulty more often than in the high condition.","PeriodicalId":216017,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122250186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Kimon, Yisroel Mirsky, L. Rokach, Bracha Shapira
{"title":"User Verification on Mobile Devices Using Sequences of Touch Gestures","authors":"L. Kimon, Yisroel Mirsky, L. Rokach, Bracha Shapira","doi":"10.1145/3079628.3079644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079644","url":null,"abstract":"Smartphones have become ubiquitous in our daily lives; they are used for a wide range of tasks and store increasing amounts of personal data. To minimize risk and prevent misuse of this data by unauthorized users, access must be restricted to verified users. Current classification-based methods for gesture-based user verification only consider single gestures, and not sequences. In this paper, we present a method which utilizes information from sequences of touchscreen gestures, and the context in which the gestures were made. To evaluate our approach, we built an application which records all the necessary data from the device (touch and contextual sensors which do not consume significant battery life), and installed it on several Galaxy S4 smartphones. The smartphones were given to 20 volunteers to use as their personal phones for two-weeks. Using XGBoost on the collected data, we were able to classify between a legitimate user and the population of illegitimate users (imposters) with an average equal error rate (EER) of 4.78% and an average area under the curve (AUC) of 98.15%. Our method demonstrates that by considering sequences of gestures, as opposed to individual gestures, the accuracy of the verification process improves significantly.","PeriodicalId":216017,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127359712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sequences of Diverse Song Recommendations: An Exploratory Study in a Commercial System","authors":"N. Tintarev, C. Lofi, Cynthia C. S. Liem","doi":"10.1145/3079628.3079633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079633","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an exploratory study of the perceptions users have of diversity and ordering in playlist recommendations. There is a match between the diversification approach used in the system, and importance that users placed on the item properties. Surprisingly, participants had no expectations of the songs being in a particular order in a playlist. We discuss possible explanations for this finding, refining the research agenda to consider which ordering choices are perceptible to users, and influence user satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":216017,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130694527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of Learners' Adjustment of Question Difficulty in Adaptive Practice of Facts","authors":"Jan Papousek, Radek Pelánek","doi":"10.1145/3079628.3079642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079642","url":null,"abstract":"Personalized educational systems are able to provide learners questions of specified difficulty. Since learners differ, the appropriate level of difficulty may vary and it may be impossible to find an universal setting. We implemented a version of an adaptive educational system for geography practice that allows learners to adjust difficulty of questions. We evaluated this feature using a randomized control experiment. The overall results show only a small effect of the adjustment. A more detailed analysis, however, shows that for some groups of learners the effect can be important, although not necessarily advantageous. The collected data from the experiment provide insight into how to tune question difficulty automatically.","PeriodicalId":216017,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121585340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leonardo Cella, Stefano Cereda, Massimo Quadrana, P. Cremonesi
{"title":"Deriving Item Features Relevance from Past User Interactions","authors":"Leonardo Cella, Stefano Cereda, Massimo Quadrana, P. Cremonesi","doi":"10.1145/3079628.3079695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079695","url":null,"abstract":"Item-based recommender systems suggest products based on the similarities between items computed either from past user preferences (collaborative filtering) or from item content features (content-based filtering). Collaborative filtering has been proven to outperform content-based filtering in a variety of scenarios. However, in item cold-start, collaborative filtering cannot be used directly since past user interactions are not available for the newly added items. Hence, content-based filtering is usually the only viable option left.","PeriodicalId":216017,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114301629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}