The evaluation of a social adaptive website for cultural events

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 23, Issue 2-3, 2013, Pages 89-137

  Gena, Cristina ^a   Cena, Federica ^a   Vernero, Fabiana ^a   Grillo, Pierluigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cultural events; Evaluation; Social adaptive systems; Social recommenders; Tag based user model

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL EVENTS; CULTURAL HERITAGES; CULTURAL RESOURCES; EVALUATION; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; INTERACTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL RECOMMENDERS; USER MODELS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEBSITES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84879687543     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-012-9129-9     Document Type: Article

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