Personalized access to information with social navigation support

Speaker
Peter Brusilovsky
Assistant Professor of Information Science & Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh and Adjunct Research Scientist, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

The focus of the talk is a promising personalization approach that we call social navigation support. Social navigation support is based on the ideas of social navigation—the human tendency to follow the footsteps of other people with similar interests. Unlike traditional adaptive navigation support that relies on expert-provided knowledge about each resource, social adaptive navigation support relies on the collective wisdom of a large community of learners gathered through different forms of implicit feedback. Over the last three semesters we have been exploring social navigation support in the context of our Knowledge Sea project, which is currently focused on helping introductory programming students find relevant readings among the hundreds of online tutorial pages that are distributed over the Web.

The talk will introduce several ways of social navigation support and present the results of several classroom studies.

Speaker's Bio

Peter Brusilovsky is an Assistant Professor of Information Science and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh and an Adjunct Research Scientist at HCI. His research interests include intelligent tutoring systems, user modeling, adaptive hypermedia and the adaptive Web. He is a co-editor of several books and a guest editor of several special journal issues on adaptive hypermedia and the adaptive Web. He has chaired several conferences and multiple workshops on adaptive hypermedia, adaptive Web-based systems, and User Modeling.

He is also the current President of User Modeling Inc. (www.um.org), a professional society of researchers working on user modeling and personalization.