User Modeling: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference UM97 Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy June 2–5 1997

Front Matter....Pages ii-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
How to Build Modeling Agents to Support Web Searchers....Pages 5-16
Web-Browser Access Through Voice Input and Page Interest Prediction....Pages 17-19
SATELIT-Agent: An Adaptive Interface Based on Learning Interface Agents Technology....Pages 21-32
HyperContext: A Model for Adaptive Hypertext....Pages 33-35
From Discourse Plans to User-Adapted Hypermedia....Pages 37-39
Users and Intermediaries in Information Retrieval: What Are They Talking About?....Pages 43-54
Integrating User Modeling Into Information Extraction: The UMIE Prototype....Pages 55-57
A Hybrid Architecture for User-Adapted Information Filtering on the World Wide Web....Pages 59-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-65
Interactive Assessment of User Preference Models: The Automated Travel Assistant....Pages 67-78
Modelling the Personality of Decision Makers for Active Decision Support....Pages 79-81
Using Dialectical Argumentation for User Modelling in Decision Support Systems....Pages 83-85
Making Sense of Users’ Mouse Clicks: Abductive Reasoning and Conversational Dialogue Modeling....Pages 89-100
Modeling Agents in Dialogue Systems....Pages 101-103
Authoring and Generating Health-Education Documents That Are Tailored to the Needs of the Individual Patient....Pages 107-118
Augmenting the User’s Knowledge via Comparison....Pages 119-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Dynamic Modelling of Keyboard Skills: Supporting Users With Motor Disabilities....Pages 135-146
User Modelling for Error Recovery: A Spelling Checker for Dyslexic Users....Pages 147-157
A User-Adaptive Chart Editing System Based on User Modeling and Critiquing....Pages 159-170
Adaptable and Adaptive Information Access for All Users, Including the Disabled and the Elderly....Pages 171-173
User as Student: Towards an Adaptive Interface for Advanced Web-Based Applications....Pages 177-188
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Pragmatic User Modelling in a Commercial Software System....Pages 189-200
Capturing a Conceptual Model for End-User Programming: Task Ontology As a Static User Model....Pages 203-214
Cinematographic User Models for Automated Realtime Camera Control in Dynamic 3D Environments....Pages 215-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
On-Line Student Modeling for Coached Problem Solving Using Bayesian Networks....Pages 231-242
Student Modeling in the ACT Programming Tutor: Adjusting a Procedural Learning Model With Declarative Knowledge....Pages 243-254
Dynamic Assessment for Operator Training....Pages 255-257
Levels of Expertise and User-Adapted Formats of Instructional Presentations: A Cognitive Load Approach....Pages 261-272
Generating Clinical Exercises of Varying Difficulty....Pages 273-275
Using the Student Model to Control Problem Difficulty....Pages 277-288
User Modeling and Adaptive Navigation Support in WWW-Based Tutoring Systems....Pages 289-300
Learner Modelling for Intelligent CALL....Pages 301-312
See Yourself Write: A Simple Student Model to Make Students Think....Pages 315-326
Inspectable User Models for Just-In-Time Workplace Training....Pages 327-337
A Pair of Student Models to Encourage Collaboration....Pages 339-341
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
A Comparison of First-Order and Zeroth-Order Induction for Input-Output Agent Modelling....Pages 347-358
Symbolic Data Analysis With the K-Means Algorithm for User Profiling....Pages 359-361
Towards a Bayesian Model for Keyhole Plan Recognition in Large Domains....Pages 365-376
Assessing Temporally Variable User Properties With Dynamic Bayesian Networks....Pages 377-388
Agent Modeling in Antiair Defense....Pages 389-400
Mechanisms for Flexible Representation and Use of Knowledge in User Modeling Shell Systems....Pages 403-414
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Managing Temporal Knowledge in Student Modeling....Pages 415-426
Do We Know What the User Knows, and Does It Matter? The Epistemics of User Modelling....Pages 429-431
A New View of Interactive Human-Computer Environments....Pages 433-435
Front Matter....Pages 437-437
Agents With Beliefs: Reflections on Bayesian Methods for User Modeling....Pages 441-442
User Interfaces for All: Developing Interfaces for Diverse User Groups....Pages 443-444
Plan Processing in User Models....Pages 447-448
Intelligent Help Through Shared Understanding....Pages 449-450
Global and Analytical Approaches to Variability for the Design of Complex Systems: The Case of Air Traffic Control....Pages 451-452
Security and Privacy Issues in User Modeling....Pages 453-454
Using a Semantic User Model to Filter the World Wide Web Proactively....Pages 455-456
Student Modelling for Operational Skill Training in Air Traffic Control....Pages 457-458
Back Matter....Pages 459-466