Building User and Expert Models by Long-Term Observation of Application Usage (1999)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the seventh international conference on User modeling |
| Citations: | 29 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Linton99buildinguser,
author = {Frank Linton and Deborah Joy and Hans-peter Schaefer},
title = {Building User and Expert Models by Long-Term Observation of Application Usage},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the seventh international conference on User modeling},
year = {1999},
pages = {129--138},
publisher = {Springer}
}
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Abstract
. We describe a new kind of user model and a new kind of expert model and show how these models can be used to individualize the selection of instructional topics. The new user model is based on observing the individual's behavior in a natural environment over a long period of time, while the new expert model is based on pooling the knowledge of numerous individuals. Individualized instructional topics are selected by comparing an individual's knowledge to the pooled knowledge of her peers. 1 Keywords OWL, recommender system, logging, organization-wide learning, learning recommendations. 2 Introduction The goal of this research is to provide individualized instruction based on a new kind of user model and a new kind of expert model. This new user model is based on observing the individual 's behavior in a natural environment over a long period of time, while the new expert model is based on pooling the knowledge of numerous individuals. Individualized instructional topics are ...
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