Capturing essential intrinsic user behaviour values for the design of comprehensive web-based personalized environments

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1434-1451

  Germanakos, Panagiotis ^a   Tsianos, Nikos ^a   Lekkas, Zacharias ^a   Mourlas, Constantinos ^a   Samaras, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cognitive learning styles; Emotionality; Personalization; User profiling; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES;

ADAPTATION; COGNITIVE LEARNING STYLES; EMOTIONAL PROCESSING PARAMETERS; EMOTIONALITY; PERSONALIZATION; USER PROFILING; VISUAL ATTENTION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 42449118483     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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