{"title":"Psychographic Matching between a Call Center Agent and a Customer","authors":"A. Kobayashi, Yuichi Ishikawa, R. Legaspi","doi":"10.1145/3450613.3456815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3450613.3456815","url":null,"abstract":"The interpersonal compatibility of a company agent and a customer significantly affects the outcome of their communication. In existing research, however, compatibility has been studied only in terms of the similarity in personality and values. That is, agents and customers were compared only on the same dimensions that make up their personality and values, e.g., on the same trait of the Big Five (compared agent's Extraversion and customer's Extraversion) or same values as per Schwartz's Basic Values (agent's Conformity and customer's Conformity). In this paper, we studied compatibility from a broader perspective, i.e., in addition to the similarity, we investigated interactions across different dimensions (e.g., an agent's Extraversion and a customer's Conformity, or the former's Extraversion and the latter's Neuroticism). Examining 7,594 real call logs collected from telemarketing call centers, we have confirmed that such different dimensional interactions significantly affect a customer making a purchase (i.e., a customer's conversion) or not. A simulation where we matched agents and customers demonstrated that our compatibility model that incorporated the interactions across different dimensions yielded significant conversion lift, i.e., +46% on the average, compared from one that used only similarity in personality and values.","PeriodicalId":435674,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127030946","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":"Towards a User Integration Framework for Personal Health Decision Support and Recommender Systems","authors":"Katja Herrmanny, Helma Torkamaan","doi":"10.1145/3450613.3456816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3450613.3456816","url":null,"abstract":"Supporting personal health with Decision Support Systems (DSS) and, specifically, recommender systems (RS) is a promising and growing area of research. Integrating the user in the loop is vital in such health systems due to the complexity of recommendations, gravity of the decisions and the reliance on user autonomy. However, for such a purpose, to the best of our knowledge there exists no profound or comprehensive framework nor model to guide system designers, to exploit the full potential of integrating users in the system’s reasoning process by design. In this paper, we present a multifaceted user integration framework in personal health-related DSS and RS. This framework, with three main components, has been derived from an iterative mixed-methods development and evaluation procedure, including expert workshops and extensive multidisciplinary literature reviews. Users are accordingly integrated into the whole process from system reasoning until decision making through the following actionable design strategies: (1) Empower: Enabling them to understand the result generation and implications, (2) Encourage: encouraging them to question and reflect system outcomes and to get involved in the generation process and (3) Engage: enabling them to take an active role by facilitating and providing opportunities for user control. The framework offers support to designers of personal health-related DSS and RS in properly integrating users into their systems.","PeriodicalId":435674,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125763312","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":"Leveraging Unstructured Text Within the Context of Conversational Agents","authors":"Maria Phillips","doi":"10.1145/3450613.3459660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3450613.3459660","url":null,"abstract":"We propose exploring alternative designs for a conversational agent developed as a tool to provide feedback within the education domain for pre-service teachers, students pursuing their teaching certificate, to practice their questioning skills in a given scenario. We utilize a component-based approach in the design of our conversational agent and this research focuses on proposing methods within the knowledge base component specifically leveraging unstructured text as the foundation of the knowledge base. Through leveraging unstructured text we intend to explore the possibilities of improving conversational agent response quality while minimizing resources required of domain experts in scenario development.","PeriodicalId":435674,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132040446","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":"Personality and Engagement with Digital Mental Health Interventions","authors":"M. Khwaja, Svenja Pieritz, A. Faisal, A. Matic","doi":"10.1145/3450613.3456823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3450613.3456823","url":null,"abstract":"Personalisation is key to creating successful digital health applications. Recent evidence links personality and preference for digital experience — suggesting that psychometric traits can be a promising basis for personalisation of digital mental health services. However, there is still little quantitative evidence from actual app usage. In this study, we explore how different personality types engage with different intervention content in a commercial mental health application. Specifically, we collected the Big Five personality traits alongside the app usage data of 126 participants using a mobile mental health app for seven days. We found that personality traits significantly correlate with the engagement and user ratings of different intervention content. These findings open a promising research avenue that can inform the personalised delivery of digital mental health content and the creation of recommender systems, ultimately improving the effectiveness of mental health interventions.","PeriodicalId":435674,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114750376","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":"”It’s like a puppet master”: User Perceptions of Personal Autonomy when Interacting with Intelligent Technologies","authors":"S. Sankaran, P. Markopoulos","doi":"10.1145/3450613.3456820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3450613.3456820","url":null,"abstract":"Applications which use some form of artificial intelligence (AI) have become embedded in our everyday interactions. Very often, AI-based apps are personalized and modelled on users’ needs and preferences. However, such applications of AI tread a delicate balance between enhancing user experience and jeopardizing personal autonomy. Personal autonomy and sense of agency are crucial for human well-being and development. In this paper, we probe this fine balance aiming to capture users’ lived experiences and perceptions of interacting with AI-based apps. We present insights from a phenomenological study (N=15) regarding users’ perception of personal autonomy when interacting with AI in everyday contexts. We found that these experiences are transitory and largely influenced by contextual factors. Users experience a loss of autonomy when their privacy or identity is threatened or when their expectations are broken. To mitigate such loss of autonomy, mechanisms for providing intelligibility and control of AI are desired.","PeriodicalId":435674,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132834665","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}
Orestis Piskioulis, Katerina Tzafilkou, A. Economides
{"title":"Emotion Detection through Smartphone's Accelerometer and Gyroscope Sensors","authors":"Orestis Piskioulis, Katerina Tzafilkou, A. Economides","doi":"10.1145/3450613.3456822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3450613.3456822","url":null,"abstract":"Emotion recognition is essential for assessing human emotional states and predicting user behavior to provide appropriate and personalized feedback. The wide range of Smartphones with accelerometers, microphones, GPSs, gyroscopes, and more motivate researchers to explore the automatic emotion detection through Smartphone sensors. To this end, mobile sensing can facilitate the data retrieval process in a non-intrusive way without disturbing the user's experience. This study seeks to contribute to the field of non-intrusive mobile sensing for emotion recognition by detecting user emotions via accelerometer and gyroscope sensors in Smartphones. A prototype gaming app was designed and a sensor log app for Android OS was used to monitor the users’ sensor data while interacting with the game. The recorded data from 40 users was processed and used to train different classifiers for two emotions: a positive (enjoyment) and a negative (frustration) one. The validation study demonstrates a high prediction of 87.90% for enjoyment and 89.45% for frustration. Our findings indicate that by analyzing accelerometer and gyroscope data, it is possible to make efficient predictions of a user's emotional state. The proposed model and its empirical development and validation are described in this paper.","PeriodicalId":435674,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116064157","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":"Ethical Considerations in User Modeling and Personalization","authors":"J. Tørresen","doi":"10.1145/3450613.3457121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3450613.3457121","url":null,"abstract":"Ethical considerations are getting increased attention with regards to providing responsible personalization for robots and autonomous systems. This is partly as a result of the currently limited deployment of such systems in human support and interaction settings. The tutorial will give an overview of the most commonly expressed ethical challenges and ways being undertaken to reduce their impact using the findings in an earlier undertaken review supplemented with recent work and initiatives. The tutorial will exemplify the challenges related to privacy, security and safety through several examples from own and others’ work.","PeriodicalId":435674,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123741480","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}
Sophie Welber, Valerie Zhao, Claire Dolin, Olivia Morkved, H. Hoffmann, Blase Ur
{"title":"Do Users Have Contextual Preferencesfor Smartphone Power Management?","authors":"Sophie Welber, Valerie Zhao, Claire Dolin, Olivia Morkved, H. Hoffmann, Blase Ur","doi":"10.1145/3450613.3456813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3450613.3456813","url":null,"abstract":"Smartphones must balance power and performance. While most smartphones offer a power-saving mode, they typically provide a binary choice between full performance and monolithic performance degradation (e.g., reducing both screen brightness and processing speed) to save power. Could smartphones improve the user experience by automatically degrading only selected features based on the usage context? To gauge whether preferences for power-saving strategies vary by context, we conducted a 304-participant, survey-based experiment. Each participant was assigned a context (e.g., navigation) and degradation level. They viewed a series of side-by-side simulations of one smartphone operating normally in that context and another operating with reduced GPS accuracy, processing speed, or screen brightness. Participants rated their willingness to accept each tradeoff to save power. Contrasting current power-saving modes, we found that participants’ preferences did indeed vary by context. Using factor analysis to cluster preferences, we identified key personas that pave the way toward context-aware and self-aware alternatives to smartphone power-saving modes.","PeriodicalId":435674,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130352023","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}
D. Jannach, Mathias Jesse, Michael Jugovac, C. Trattner
{"title":"Exploring Multi-List User Interfaces for Similar-Item Recommendations","authors":"D. Jannach, Mathias Jesse, Michael Jugovac, C. Trattner","doi":"10.1145/3450613.3456809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3450613.3456809","url":null,"abstract":"On many e-commerce and media streaming sites, the user interface (UI) consists of multiple lists of item suggestions. The items in each list are usually chosen based on pre-defined strategies and, e.g., show movies of the same genre or category. Such interfaces are common in practice, but there is almost no academic research regarding the optimal design and arrangement of such multi-list UIs for recommenders. In this paper, we report the results of an exploratory user study that examined the effects of various design alternatives on the decision-making behavior of users in the context of similar-item recommendations. Our investigations showed, among other aspects, that decision-making is slower and more demanding with multi-list interfaces, but that users also explore more options before making a decision. Regarding the selection of the algorithm to retrieve similar items, our study furthermore reveals the importance of considering social-based similarity measures.","PeriodicalId":435674,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122728980","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":"Adaptive Visualizations for Enhanced Data Understanding and Interpretation","authors":"Christos Amyrotos","doi":"10.1145/3450613.3459657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3450613.3459657","url":null,"abstract":"In a data driven economy where data volume and dimensions are explosively increasing, businesses rely on business intelligence and analytics (BI&A) platforms for analysing their data and coming to beneficial decisions. With the ever-growing generation of data, the process of data analysis is becoming more complicated for the business users, as the exploration of more demanding use cases increases. While the existing BI&A platforms provide myriads of data visualizations that support data exploration, none of those account for the user’s individual differences, needs or requirements, and thus may hinder the user’s understanding of visual data and consequently their decision-making processes. This work embarks on an interdisciplinary endeavour to introduce a human-centred adaptive data visualizations framework in the context of business, as the core of an adaptive data analytics platform, that aims to enhance the business user’s decision making by increasing her understanding of data. The framework is built using a multi-dimensional human-centred user model that goes beyond traditional user characteristics and accounts for cognitive factors, domain expertise and experience and factors related to the business context i.e., data, visualizations and tasks; a data visualization engine that will recommend to the unique-user the best-fit data visualizations based on the abovementioned user model; and an intelligent data analytics component that enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the data exploration process by leveraging user interactions during the explorations to further inform the user model on the user’s expertise and experience.","PeriodicalId":435674,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130676377","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}