Minimalist user modelling in a complex commercial software system

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 109-145

  Strachan, Linda ^a   Anderson, John ^a   Sneesby, Murray ^b   Evans, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Emerging Information Systems Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; PRAGMATIC USER MODELING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0034483525     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026553509852     Document Type: Article

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