Methods and techniques for the evaluation of user-adaptive systems

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-37

  Gena, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EMPIRICAL EVALUATION; USER-ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 28544433485     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: 14698005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888905000299     Document Type: Article

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