Visualisation of ontological inferences for user control of personal Web agents

Author

Apted, Trent ; Kay, Judy ; Lum, Andrew ; Uther, James

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia

fYear

2003

fDate

16-18 July 2003

Firstpage

306

Lastpage

311

Abstract

We describe a visualisation tool, VlUM, designed to support users in scrutinising models of their interests, preferences and knowledge. We also describe MECUREO, a tool for building lightweight ontologies from online dictionaries. It enables a user to see a model describing both their interests and additional analogically inferred interests. We report a small qualitative evaluation of this combined system. This indicates that users were able to use the system to explore models of two hypothetical users, making use of varying levels of ontological inference.

Keywords

Internet; data visualisation; dictionaries; inference mechanisms; software agents; user modelling; MECUREO; Visualisation of Large User Model; VlUM; hypothetical user; lightweight ontology; online dictionary; ontological inference visualisation; ontology construction; personal Web agent; user control; user modelling; visualisation tool; Automatic control; Buildings; Dictionaries; Displays; Information technology; Ontologies; Semantic Web; Software agents; Visualization; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003. Proceedings. Seventh International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1988-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2003.1217995

Filename

1217995