Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services

Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services
Author: Marko Tkalčič
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2016-07-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319314130

Personalization is ubiquitous from search engines to online-shopping websites helping us find content more efficiently and this book focuses on the key developments that are shaping our daily online experiences. With advances in the detection of end users’ emotions, personality, sentiment and social signals, researchers and practitioners now have the tools to build a new generation of personalized systems that will really understand the user’s state and deliver the right content. With leading experts from a vast array of domains from user modeling, mobile sensing and information retrieval to artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction (HCI) social computing and psychology, a broad spectrum of topics are covered. From discussing psychological theoretical models and exploring state-of-the-art methods for acquiring emotions and personality in an unobtrusive way, as well as describing how these concepts can be used to improve various aspects of the personalization process and chapters that discuss evaluation and privacy issues. Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems will help aid researchers and practitioners develop and evaluate user-centric personalization systems that take into account the factors that have a tremendous impact on our decision-making – emotions and personality.

User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Author: Francesco Ricci
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2015-06-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319202677

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2015, held in Dublin, Ireland, in June/July 2015. The 25 long and 7 short papers of the research paper track were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers reflect the conference theme "Contextualizing the World", highlighting the significance and impact of user modeling and adaptive technologies on a large number of everyday application areas such as: intelligent learning environments, recommender systems, e-commerce, advertising, personalized information retrieval and access, digital humanities, e-government, cultural heritage, and personalized health.

Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations

Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations
Author: Dustin Wood
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2021-06-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0128192011

Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations presents major innovations and contributions on the topic, promoting deeper integration, cross-pollination of ideas across diverse academic disciplines, and the facilitation of the development of practical applications such as matching people to jobs, understanding decision making, and predicting how a group of individuals will interact with one another. The book is organized around two overarching and interrelated themes, with the first focusing on assessing the person and the situation, covering methodological advances and techniques for inferring and measuring characteristics, and showing how they can be instantiated for measurement and predictive purposes. The book's second theme presents theoretical models, conceptualizing how factors of the person and situation can help us understand the psychological dynamics which underlie behavior, the psychological experience of fit or congruence with one's environment, and changes in personality traits over time. - Identifies technologies for measuring and predicting behavior - Infers behavior causes from personality and/or situational variables - Utilizes big data, machine learning and modeling to understand behavior - Includes mobile phone, social media and wearable tech usage analysis - Explores the stability of personality over time - Considers behavior analysis to treat maladaptive behavior

Advanced Information Networking and Applications

Advanced Information Networking and Applications
Author: Leonard Barolli
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1396
Release: 2019-03-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030150321

The aim of the book is to provide latest research findings, innovative research results, methods and development techniques from both theoretical and practical perspectives related to the emerging areas of information networking and applications. Networks of today are going through a rapid evolution and there are many emerging areas of information networking and their applications. Heterogeneous networking supported by recent technological advances in low power wireless communications along with silicon integration of various functionalities such as sensing, communications, intelligence and actuations are emerging as a critically important disruptive computer class based on a new platform, networking structure and interface that enable novel, low cost and high volume applications. Several of such applications have been difficult to realize because of many interconnections problems. To fulfill their large range of applications different kinds of networks need to collaborate and wired and next generation wireless systems should be integrated in order to develop high performance computing solutions to problems arising from the complexities of these networks. This book covers the theory, design and applications of computer networks, distributed computing and information systems.

Group Recommender Systems

Group Recommender Systems
Author: Alexander Felfernig
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2023-11-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031449436

This book discusses different aspects of group recommender systems, which are systems that help to identify recommendations for groups instead of single users. In this context, the authors present different related techniques and applications. The book includes in-depth summaries of group recommendation algorithms, related industrial applications, different aspects of preference construction and explanations, user interface aspects of group recommender systems, and related psychological aspects that play a crucial role in group decision scenarios.

Emotional Design

Emotional Design
Author: Don Norman
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0465004172

Why attractive things work better and other crucial insights into human-centered design Emotions are inseparable from how we humans think, choose, and act. In Emotional Design, cognitive scientist Don Norman shows how the principles of human psychology apply to the invention and design of new technologies and products. In The Design of Everyday Things, Norman made the definitive case for human-centered design, showing that good design demanded that the user's must take precedence over a designer's aesthetic if anything, from light switches to airplanes, was going to work as the user needed. In this book, he takes his thinking several steps farther, showing that successful design must incorporate not just what users need, but must address our minds by attending to our visceral reactions, to our behavioral choices, and to the stories we want the things in our lives to tell others about ourselves. Good human-centered design isn't just about making effective tools that are straightforward to use; it's about making affective tools that mesh well with our emotions and help us express our identities and support our social lives. From roller coasters to robots, sports cars to smart phones, attractive things work better. Whether designer or consumer, user or inventor, this book is the definitive guide to making Norman's insights work for you.

Recommender Systems Handbook

Recommender Systems Handbook
Author: Francesco Ricci
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1053
Release: 2022-04-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1071621971

This third edition handbook describes in detail the classical methods as well as extensions and novel approaches that were more recently introduced within this field. It consists of five parts: general recommendation techniques, special recommendation techniques, value and impact of recommender systems, human computer interaction, and applications. The first part presents the most popular and fundamental techniques currently used for building recommender systems, such as collaborative filtering, semantic-based methods, recommender systems based on implicit feedback, neural networks and context-aware methods. The second part of this handbook introduces more advanced recommendation techniques, such as session-based recommender systems, adversarial machine learning for recommender systems, group recommendation techniques, reciprocal recommenders systems, natural language techniques for recommender systems and cross-domain approaches to recommender systems. The third part covers a wide perspective to the evaluation of recommender systems with papers on methods for evaluating recommender systems, their value and impact, the multi-stakeholder perspective of recommender systems, the analysis of the fairness, novelty and diversity in recommender systems. The fourth part contains a few chapters on the human computer dimension of recommender systems, with research on the role of explanation, the user personality and how to effectively support individual and group decision with recommender systems. The last part focusses on application in several important areas, such as, food, music, fashion and multimedia recommendation. This informative third edition handbook provides a comprehensive, yet concise and convenient reference source to recommender systems for researchers and advanced-level students focused on computer science and data science. Professionals working in data analytics that are using recommendation and personalization techniques will also find this handbook a useful tool.

User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Author: Vania Dimitrova
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2014-06-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 331908786X

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaption and Personalization, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in July 2014. The 23 long and 19 short papers of the research paper track were carefully reviewed and selected from 146 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation; Personalization for individuals, groups and populations; modeling individuals, groups and communities; Web dynamics and personalization; adaptive web-based systems; context awareness; social recommendations; user experience; user awareness and control; Affective aspects; UMAP underpinning by psychology models; privacy; perceived security and trust; behavior change and persuasion.

User Modeling, Adaption, and Personalization

User Modeling, Adaption, and Personalization
Author: Sandra Carberry
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2013-06-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642388442

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaption, and Personalization, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2013. The 21 long and 7 short papers of the research paper track were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover the following topics: recommender systems, student modeling, social media and teams, human cognition, personality, privacy, web curation and user profiles, travel and mobile applications, and systems for elderly and disabled individuals.

Individual and Contextual Factors in the English Language Classroom

Individual and Contextual Factors in the English Language Classroom
Author: Rahma Al-Mahrooqi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2022-03-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030918815

This edited volume examines a number of topics related to the roles of individual and contextual factors in English as second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) settings by presenting chapters across the three sections of theoretical and pedagogical approaches, teacher and learner research, and research into the roles of technology. The book has a focus on practical actions and recommendations related to individual and contextual factors in ESL/EFL, with a specific concern with issues of cognition, metacognition, emotion, and identity, and offers perspectives from a diverse range of international education settings. For teachers of ESL/EFL, the effective recognition and integration of individual and contextual factors into the classroom may represent a significant challenge. This is often the case in those settings where native English speaking teachers work in foreign language contexts where they may have limited understanding of local cultures and languages, or where language instructors have class groups that are culturally and linguistically diverse. In these, and similar, contexts, the types and extent of individual and contextual factors impacting on language learning may challenge both learner and instructor expectations of what an effective and supportive classroom is. While such a situation offers numerous opportunities for learners and teachers to expand their knowledge of themselves and each other, it also presents the possibility for ineffective teaching and learning to occur. It is within this framework that the book presents the latest theoretical, pedagogical, and research perspectives from around the world, thereby providing a resource for all stakeholders with an interest in the roles individual and contextual factors play in the English learning process.