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CS 8802 Adaptive Personalized Information Environments
Spring 2003, W 4:00-6:00
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General Information The remarkable advances in infrastructure and computing power in the last few years have changed how users work with computers. Instead of working with a single, personal computer, users now spread their activities and knowledge across a wide variety of computational devices (e.g. wall-size displays, electronic whiteboards, desktop PCs, laptops, wearables, PDAs, cellphones). As designers of information systems, we have not kept pace with this shift. The resulting gap between practice and paradigm offers both challenges and opportunities. Closing this gap will require systems that are aware of and can adapt to the particular needs of a specific user. Creating such a system will require access to the user's personal data and individual behavior, as well as models of where she is, where she goes, and what she does. Our basic premise, then, is that we must design systems not for users working with a personal computer, but for users living in a personal information environment. In this course we will explore how human-computer interaction and machine learning can interact to create such an environment. We will discuss current research efforts from both fields to understand existing approaches. In parallel with these discussions, students will complete semester-long group projects, incorporating aspects of both fields, that contribute to the state of the art for adaptive personalized information environments. The objectives of the course are:
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