Title :
Towards individualized information navigation tools that adapt to user domain expertise
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., California State Univ., San Bernardino, CA, USA
Abstract :
The navigation of information spaces can be accelerated by restructuring the ways in which the information space is presented to the user. Individuals with little expertise in the browsed subject benefit less from speedy access of material when fast access comes at the expense of the information being moved out of its original context and thereby rendered incoherent. To ensure that users with varying expertise will benefit from individualization it seems necessary to strike user×topic-specific compromises between maximizing access speed and minimizing loss of coherence
Keywords :
human factors; information retrieval; knowledge based systems; online front-ends; SKIPPER; access speed; browsed subject; coherence loss; individualization; individualized information navigation tools; information retrieval; information space navigation; topic-specific compromises; user domain expertise; Coherence; Computer science; Cost function; Embedded computing; Loss measurement; Navigation; Tree data structures; Web sites;
Conference_Titel :
Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1997. Proceedings., Ninth IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Newport Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8203-5
DOI :
10.1109/TAI.1997.632293