Exploring issues of user model transparency and proactive behaviour in an office environment control system

User Modelling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 235-273

  Cheverst, Keith ^a,b   Byun, Hee Eon ^a,b   Fitton, Dan ^a   Sas, Corina ^a   Kray, Chris ^a   Villar, Nicolas ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context history; Inference; Intelligent environment; Machine learning; Proactive behaviour; Prototype deployment; Scrutability

Indexed keywords

INFERENCE; PROACTIVE BEHAVIOR; PROTOTYPE DEPLOYMENT;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 28244483212     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-005-1269-8     Document Type: Article

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