T. Kamba et al., ANATAGONOMY - A PERSONALIZED NEWSPAPER ON THE WORLD-WIDE-WEB, International journal of human-computer studies, 46(6), 1997, pp. 789-803
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology,Ergonomics,"Computer Sciences","Controlo Theory & Cybernetics","Computer Science Cybernetics
This paper describes a personalized newspaper on the World Wide Web (W
WW), called ANATAGONOMY. The main feature of this system is that the n
ewspaper is personalized without asking the users to specify their pre
ferences explicitly. The system monitors user operations on the articl
es and reflects them in the user profiles. Differently from convention
al newspapers on the WWW, our system sends an interaction agent implem
ented as a Java applet to the client side, and the agent monitors the
user operations and creates each user's newspaper pages automatically.
The server side manages user profiles and anticipates how interesting
an article would be for each user. The interaction agent on the clien
t side manages all the user interactions, including the automatic layo
ut of pages. Our system has page multiple layout algorithms and the us
er can switch from one view to another anytime, according to the prefe
rence or machine environment. On one of the views, the user can even s
ee all the articles sequentially without performing any operations. We
evaluated a scheme in which the user scores each article explicitly,
and a scheme in which all the personalization is done automatically. T
he results show that automatic personalization works well when some pa
rameters are set properly. (C) 1997 Academic Press Limited.