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Supporting Personalised Information Exploration through Subjective Expert-created Semantic Attributes
HAMPSON, CORMAC; HAMPSON, CORMAC; CONLAN, OWEN (2009)Ordinary users are finding it increasingly difficult to explore the large volumes of diverse data they encounter in their everyday lives. Techniques based on data mining algorithms are useful but they tend to be too complex ... -
Supporting Users in Creating Pedagogically Sound Personalised Learning Objects
WADE, VINCENT PATRICK; DAGGER, DECLAN; CONLAN, OWEN (Springer, 2008)Successful eLearning is predicated on the application of pedagogies appropriate to online education that respond to the capabilities and needs of the learners. Typically, designing and assembling personalized learning ... -
Towards a Simulation-based Communication Tool to Support Semantic Business Process Management
O'SULLIVAN, DECLAN; CONLAN, OWEN (2008)Successfully communicating a Business Executive?s goals and desires to an IT Architect with regard to organizational change presents a major challenge. The most significant problem is relating the changes desired in ... -
Towards Multi-Dimensional Adaptation of Digitised Historical Content
WADE, VINCENT PATRICK; LAWLESS, SEAMUS; O'CONNOR, ALEXANDER; CONLAN, OWEN; OHLMEYER, JANE; O SIOCHRU, MICHEAL; O'NEILL, ELEANOR (2011)Traditional keyword-based search approaches are limited in their retrieval of digital content. In this paper we discuss progress towards multi-dimensional adaptation of digitised content in the context of the European ... -
Towards Non-expert Users Monitoring Networks and Services through Semantically Enhanced Visualizations
HAMPSON, CORMAC; KEENEY, JOHN; CONLAN, OWEN (2010)Managing networks and services in large virtual enterprises often requires significant expertise to decipher and reconcile information coming from several heterogeneous sources. This presents a significant challenge as ... -
Towards Non-invasive Adaptive Meta-Cognitive Support for Online Training
WADE, VINCENT PATRICK; DAGGER, DECLAN; CONLAN, OWEN; MOORE, ADAM (IEEE, 2011)Online training is an increasingly important facet of the skills enhancing portfolio of any organization and has an especial place within life-long learning, career development and other self-regulated adult learning. We ... -
Towards the Visualisation of Collaborative Policy Decomposition
CONLAN, OWEN; KEENEY, JOHN; LEWIS, DAVID; O'SULLIVAN, DECLAN; WADE, VINCENT PATRICK (IEEE, 2008)Policy-based management is typically used to manage large and complex systems, e.g. the management of telecommunications networks. When collaborating multi-disciplinary managers try to create policies from their own viewpoint ... -
Towards User-Centric Cross-Site Personalisation
KOIDL, KEVIN; WADE, VINCENT PATRICK; CONLAN, OWEN (2011-06)Personalisation on the web is mostly confined to Websites of online content providers. The main drawback of this approach is the missing consideration of the users previous cross-site browsing experience resulting in an ... -
A unified approach to adaptive hypermedia personalisation and adaptive service composition
CONLAN, OWEN; O'KEEFFE, IAN BRIAN; WADE, VINCENT PATRICK (Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2006)Adaptive Hypermedia is utilised in several domains, such as eLearning and professional training, where there is a growing movement towards the use of cognitively richer and more `active? approaches to user engagement. ... -
Using Expert-Derived Aesthetic Attributes to Help Users in Browsing Image Databases
CONLAN, OWEN; HAMPSON, CORMAC; HAMPSON, CORMAC (2011)Image repositories often contain a large amount of metadata about their content. However many resources, such as photographs, have inherent aesthetic qualities that can be difficult to describe in a semantically consistent ... -
Using Psychometric Approaches in the Modeling of Abstract Cognitive Skills for Personalization, Lifelong User Modelling Workshop
CONLAN, OWEN; MACARTHUR, VICTORIA (2009)?Learning to learn? is the informal phrase often used to describe the acquisition of abstract cognitive skills such as metacognition and social cognition. Current personalization approaches within Adaptive Learning Systems ... -
Utilizing context in adaptive information services for pervasive computing environments
CONLAN, OWEN; LEWIS, DAVID; O'SULLIVAN, DECLAN; POWER, RUAIDHRI SEAN; WADE, VINCENT PATRICK (2004)Ubiquitous and pervasive computing environments have the potential to provide rich sources of information about a user and their surroundings. Such context information may form a ba-sis upon which Adaptive Information ... -
Utilizing Social Networks for User Model Priming: User Attitudes
DONOHOE, GARY JAMES; CONLAN, OWEN (2013)Research on user modeling based on social network information has shown that some user characteristics can be accurately inferred from users? digital traces. This kind of information can be used to inform user models ... -
Visualizing Narrative Structures and Learning Style Information in Personalized e-Learning Systems
CONLAN, OWEN (IEEE, 2007)This paper proposes a novel approach to the visualization of complex, but interrelated, sets of information to ease user cognition. Principally, it explores the potential of providing users of personalized e-Learning systems ... -
VUMA: A Visual User Modeling Approach for the Personalization of Adaptive Systems
CONLAN, OWEN (Springer, 2008)Current approaches to explicit user modelling are generally time consuming and tedious for the user. Oftentimes poor usability and overly long questionnaires deter the end user from reusing such modelling tools, thus only ...