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VlUM, a Web-Based Visualisation of Large User Models

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User Modeling 2003 (UM 2003)

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This paper describes VlUM, a new tool for visualising large user models. It is intended to help users gain both an overview of the system’s model of a user as well as the ability to find interesting parts of the model. In particular, it is intended to enable users to quickly identify outlier or interesting parts of the model.

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  1. School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, N.S.W, 2006, Australia

    James Uther & Judy Kay

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  1. School of Information Sciences, Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh, 135 North Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Peter Brusilovsky

  2. Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Albert Corbett

  3. Intelligent Interfaces, Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy

    Fiorella de Rosis

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Uther, J., Kay, J. (2003). VlUM, a Web-Based Visualisation of Large User Models. In: Brusilovsky, P., Corbett, A., de Rosis, F. (eds) User Modeling 2003. UM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2702. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44963-9_26

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