User Modeling for Multimedia Interfaces: Studies in Text and Graphics Understanding

✍ Scribed by Susanne van Mulken (auth.)

• Publisher: Deutscher Universitätsverlag
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: German
• Leaves: 194
• Series: Studien zur Kognitionswissenschaft
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As the range of people gaining access to information is widening a custom-made presentation of information is growing more and more important. This book presents an approach that allows a multimedia presentation system to cater for the users‘ needs. Susanne van Mulken discusses the relevant literature on cognitive psychology, current multimedia presentation systems, and user modeling, and she develops a system module which - on the basis of Bayesian networks - is able to estimate the decodability of planned presentations for an individual user. The module learns facts about the user by means of the interaction and diagnoses the critical parts of a display so that they can be remedied before the actual presentation. Selected models are empirically validated by psychological experiments.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Comprehension in Multimedia Communication....Pages 11-30
User Characteristics in Current Presentation Systems....Pages 31-50
User Modeling: Representation and Inference....Pages 51-71
Modeling Decoding Problems....Pages 73-112
Empirical Studies....Pages 113-139
Achievements and Future Work....Pages 141-147
Back Matter....Pages 149-184

✦ Subjects

Economics/Management Science, general