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Sixth International Conference on User Modeling
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Preface
Acknowledgements
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Information Retrieval 1
Hypermedia Navigation 3
How to Build Modeling Agents to Support Web Searchers
Paul P. Maglio and Rob Barrett
5
Web-Browser Access Through Voice Input and Page Interest Prediction
Marco Gori, Marco Maggini, and Enrico Martinelli
17
SATELIT-Agent: An Adaptive Interface Based on Learning Interface Agents Technology
Irina Akoulchina and Jean-Gabriel Ganascia
21
HyperContext: A Model for Adaptive Hypertext
Christopher Staff
33
From Discourse Plans to User-Adapted Hypermedia
Berardina De Carolis and Sebastiano Pizzutilo
37
Intermediaries and Information Filtering 41
Users and Intermediaries in Information Retrieval: What Are They Talking About?
Tefko Saracevic, Amanda Spink, and Mei-Mei Wu
43
Integrating User Modeling Into Information Extraction: The UMIE Prototype
Eftihia Benaki, Vangelis A. Karkaletsis, and Constantine D. Spyropoulos
55
A Hybrid Architecture for User-Adapted Information Filtering on the World Wide Web
Leonardo Ambrosini, Vincenzo Cirillo, and Alessandro Micarelli
59
Information Presentation 63
Decision Support 65
Interactive Assessment of User Preference Models: The Automated Travel Assistant
Greg Linden, Steve Hanks, and Neal Lesh
67
Modelling the Personality of Decision Makers for Active Decision Support
Priyanka Paranagama, Frada Burstein, and David Arnott
79
Using Dialectical Argumentation for User Modelling in Decision Support Systems
Floriana Grasso
83
Dialog Management 87
Making Sense of Users' Mouse Clicks: Abductive Reasoning and Conversational Dialogue Modeling
Adelheit Stein, Jon Atle Gulla, and Ulrich Thiel
89
Modeling Agents in Dialogue Systems
Paulo Quaresma and José Gabriel Lopes
101
Natural Language Generation 105
Authoring and Generating Health-Education Documents That Are Tailored to the Needs of the Individual Patient
Graeme Hirst, Chrysanne DiMarco, Eduard Hovy, and Kimberley Parsons
107
Augmenting the User's Knowledge via Comparison
Maria Milosavljevic
119
Interface Adaptation 131
Tailoring to Abilities, Disabilities, and Preferences 133
Dynamic Modelling of Keyboard Skills: Supporting Users With Motor Disabilities
Shari Trewin and Helen Pain
135
User Modelling for Error Recovery: A Spelling Checker for Dyslexic Users
Roger I. W. Spooner and Alistair D. N. Edwards
147
A User-Adaptive Chart Editing System Based on User Modeling and Critiquing
Bernd Gutkauf, Stefanie Thies, and Gitta Domik
159
Adaptable and Adaptive Information Access for All Users, Including the Disabled and the Elderly
Josef Fink, Alfred Kobsa, and Andreas Nill
171
Provision of Help 175
User as Student: Towards an Adaptive Interface for Advanced Web-Based Applications
Peter Brusilovsky and Elmar Schwarz
177
Pragmatic User Modelling in a Commercial Software System
Linda Strachan, John Anderson, Murray Sneesby, and Mark Evans
189
High-Level Programming and Control 201
Capturing a Conceptual Model for End-User Programming: Task Ontology as a Static User Model
Kazuhisa Seta, Mitsuru Ikeda, Osamu Kakusho, and Riichiro Mizoguchi
203
Cinematographic User Models for Automated Realtime Camera Control in Dynamic 3D Environments
William H. Bares and James C. Lester
215
Instruction and Training 227
Knowledge and Skill Diagnosis 229
On-Line Student Modeling for Coached Problem Solving Using Bayesian Networks
Cristina Conati, Abigail S. Gertner, Kurt VanLehn, and Marek J. Druzdzel
231
Student Modeling in the ACT Programming Tutor: Adjusting a Procedural Learning Model With Declarative Knowledge
Albert T. Corbett and Akshat Bhatnagar
243
Dynamic Assessment for Operator Training
Claudine Moinard and Michelle Joab
255
Tailoring to Learner Proficiency 259
Levels of Expertise and User-Adapted Formats of Instructional Presentations: A Cognitive Load Approach
Slava Kalyuga, Paul Chandler, and John Sweller
261
Generating Clinical Exercises of Varying Difficulty
Sandra Carberry and John R. Clarke
273
Using the Student Model to Control Problem Difficulty
Joseph Beck, Mia Stern, and Beverly Park Woolf
277
User Modeling and Adaptive Navigation Support in WWW-Based Tutoring Systems
Gerhard Weber and Marcus Specht
289
Learner Modelling for Intelligent CALL
Maureen Murphy and Michael McTear
301
Feedback and Support for Collaboration 313
See Yourself Write: A Simple Student Model to Make Students Think
Susan Bull
315
Inspectable User Models for Just-In-Time Workplace Training
Jason A. Collins, Jim E. Greer, Vive S. Kumar, Gordon I. McCalla, Paul Meagher, and Ray Tkatch
327
A Pair of Student Models to Encourage Collaboration
Susan Bull and Matt Smith
339
General Techniques and Perspectives 343
Machine Learning Techniques 345
A Comparison of First-Order and Zeroth-Order Induction for Input-Output Agent Modelling
Bark Cheung Chiu, Geoffrey I. Webb, and Mark Kuzmycz
347
Symbolic Data Analysis With the K-Means Algorithm for User Profiling
Anne-Claude Doux, Jean-Philippe Laurent, and Jean-Pierre Nadal
359
Probabilistic Techniques 363
Towards a Bayesian Model for Keyhole Plan Recognition in Large Domains
David W. Albrecht, Ingrid Zukerman, Ann E. Nicholson, and Ariel Bud
365
Assessing Temporally Variable User Properties With Dynamic Bayesian Networks
Ralph Schäfer and Thomas Weyrath
377
Agent Modeling in Antiair Defense: A Case Study
Sanguk Noh and Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz
389
Logic-Based Methods 401
Mechanisms for Flexible Representation and Use of Knowledge in User Modeling Shell Systems
Wolfgang Pohl and Jörg Höhle
403
Managing Temporal Knowledge in Student Modeling
Paolo Giangrandi and Carlo Tasso
415
Perspectives 427
Do We Know What the User Knows, and Does It Matter? The Epistemics of User Modelling
Michael Ramscar, Helen Pain, and John Lee
429
A New View of Interactive Human-Computer Environments
Julita Vassileva
433
Special Conference Sessions 437
Invited Talks 439
Agents With Beliefs: Reflections on Bayesian Methods for User Modeling
Eric Horvitz
441
User Interfaces for All: Developing Interfaces for Diverse User Groups
Constantine Stephanidis
443
Doctoral Consortium 445
Plan Processing in User Models
Detlef Küpper
447
Intelligent Help Through Shared Understanding
Gerhard Peter
449
Global and Analytical Approaches to Variability for the Design of Complex Systems: The Case of Air Traffic Control
Olivier Pierret
451
Security and Privacy Issues in User Modeling
Jörg Schreck
453
Using a Semantic User Model to Filter the World Wide Web Proactively
Joep Simons
455
Student Modelling for Operational Skill Training in Air Traffic Control
Kalina Yacef
457
Author Information 459
Author Addresses 461
Author Index 465

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