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Describing User Interactions in Adaptive Interactive Systems

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User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2009)

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The description of the user-system interaction plays a crucial role in adaptive interactive systems, since the adaptations depend on this description. User actions in interactive systems can be described as a sequence of events, which are created by input through input devices as well as by the system as reactions to these inputs. An interactive system can observe these events and thus extract information about the user’s behavior. This paper presents a two-step approach for describing user behavior from sequences of basic events. First, user actions are recognized in the sequence of interaction events by means of previously trained probabilistic automata. Second, a task model describes the higher-level user activity as a hierarchical composition of these actions. Different kinds of adaptive support can be derived from this description of user behavior, such as recommending next interaction steps to the user.

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  1. Institute for Information Technology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

    Matthias Bezold

  2. Elektrobit Automotive Software, Erlangen, Germany

    Matthias Bezold

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  1. EWI/ST/WIS, Delft University of Technology, PO Box 5031, 2600 GA, Delft, The Netherlands

    Geert-Jan Houben

  2. Department of Computer Science, Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems (ARIES), Saskatoon, University of Saskatchewan, S7N 5E2, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Gord McCalla

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Bezold, M. (2009). Describing User Interactions in Adaptive Interactive Systems. In: Houben, GJ., McCalla, G., Pianesi, F., Zancanaro, M. (eds) User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. UMAP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5535. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02247-0_16

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