Filtering for Medical News Items (2008)
Carolyn Watters, Wanhong Zheng, Evangelos Milios
In this paper we describe recent work to provide a filtering service for readers interested in medically related news articles from online news sources. The first task is to filter out the nonmedical...
Document Retrieval using Proximity-based Phrase Searching (2008)
Kathryn Patterson, Carolyn Watters, Michael Shepherd
Exact phrase matching is a powerful tool to quickly retrieve results when a sufficient section of the text is accurately provided as the query. If the section of the text is not completely accurate,...
Melanie Kellar, Henry Stern, Carolyn Watters, Michael Shepherd
Contact author: shepherd In this paper we describe an information architecture that supports the dynamic composition of Web based lessons based on a database of fine grained components that can be...
Melanie Kellar, Henry Stern, Carolyn Watters, Michael Shepherd
Contact author: shepherd In this paper we describe an information architecture that supports the dynamic composition of Web based lessons based on a database of fine grained components that can be...
Dynamic Composition of Math Lessons (2008)
Melanie Kellar, Bonnie Mackay, Rui Zhang, Carolyn Watters, David Kaufman, Jonathan Borwein
In this work we describe an architecture that supports the composition of web based lesson plans for math based on a database of fine grained mathematical components. Lessons can be tailored for...
Abstract Lessons From Reading E-News for Browsing the Web: The Roles of Genre and Task (2008)
Michael Shepherd, Carolyn Watters, Raj Kaushik
An appreciation of the roles of genre and task is important in understanding how people browse the Web. Genre is characterized by content and form and is intimately linked to the task at hand. In...
C.: Extending the Rocchio Relevance Feedback Algorithm to Provide Contextual Retrieval (2008)
Abstract. Contextual retrieval supports differences amongst users in their information seeking requests. The Web, which is very dynamic and nearly universally accessible, is an environment in which...
Carolyn Watters, Bonnie Mackay
More people are using their smaller devices to access the Web. In this paper, we concentrate on the effect of migrating Web pages from large screened devices to small screened devices for users who...
Abstract The Role of User Profiles for News Filtering (2008)
Most online news sources are electronic versions of “ink-on-paper ” newspapers. These are versions that have been filtered, from the mass of news produced each day, by an editorial board with a...
Abstract Building Trust for E-commerce: Collaborating Label Bureaus (2008)
Michael Shepherd, Anil Dhonde, Carolyn Watters
A major problem facing the full deployment of business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce is the development of trust on the side of the consumer. People develop trust in a business through their own...
Interfaces – interaction styles, evaluation/methodology. (2008)
Bonnie Mackay, David Dearman, Kori Inkpen, Carolyn Watters
In this paper, we present a field study comparing software-based navigation techniques (scrollbars, tap-and-drag, and touch-n-go) on mobile devices. In particular, we were interested in exploring the...
An Adaptive User Profile for Filtering News Based on a User Interest Hierarchy (2008)
Sarabdeep Singh, Jack Duffy, Carolyn Watters
A prototype system for the filtering and ranking of news items has been developed and a pilot test has been conducted. The user’s interests are modeled by a user interest hierarchy based on...
The impact of migration of data to small screens on navigation (2007)
Bonnie Mackay, Carolyn Watters
The increased use and growing popularity of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) means users now have access to information on a variety of platforms. As people move or migrate between devices, from...
An Exploration of Web-Based Monitoring: Implications for Design (2007)
Melanie Kellar, Carolyn Watters, Kori M. Inkpen
Monitoring occurs when users return to previously viewed web pages to view new or updated information. While tools exist to support web-based monitoring, we know little about the monitoring...
A Goal-based Classification of Web Information Tasks (2006)
Kellar, Melanie, Watters, Carolyn, Shepherd, Michael
While researchers have been studying user activity on the Web since its inception, there remains a lack of understanding of the high level tasks in which users engage on the Web. We have recently...
An Adaptive User Profile for Filtering News Based on a User Interest Hierarchy (2006)
Singh, Sarabdeep, Shepherd, Michael, Duffy, Jack, Watters, Carolyn
A prototype system for the filtering and ranking of news items has been developed and a pilot test has been conducted. The user’s interests are modeled by a user interest hierarchy based on...
A Goal-based Classification of Web Information Tasks (2006)
Kellar, Melanie, Watters, Carolyn, Shepherd, Michael
While researchers have been studying user activity on the Web since its inception, there remains a lack of understanding of the high level tasks in which users engage on the Web. We have recently...
An Adaptive User Profile for Filtering News Based on a User Interest Hierarchy (2006)
Singh, Sarabdeep, Shepherd, Michael, Duffy, Jack, Watters, Carolyn
A prototype system for the filtering and ranking of news items has been developed and a pilot test has been conducted. The user’s interests are modeled by a user interest hierarchy based on...
The Impact of Task on the Usage of Web Browser Navigation Tools (2006)
Melanie Kellar, Carolyn Watters, Michael Shepherd, Melanie Kellar, Carolyn Watters, Michael Shepherd
The design and improvement of existing web browser navigation tools is often motivated by reports of high tool usage in the literature. However, general usage data alone is not enough to understand...
A Goal-Based Classification of Web Information Tasks (2006)
Melanie Kellar, Carolyn Watters, Michael Shepherd
While researchers have been studying user activity on the Web since its inception, there remains a lack of understanding of the high level tasks in which users engage on the Web. We have recently...
A Comparison of Motivational Factors between Game Players (2005)
Watters, Carolyn, Duffy, Jack, Kellar, Melanie
Presented at the International DiGRA Conference, June 16th - 20th, 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (http://www.gamesconference.org/digra2005/overview.php)
Game Genre Evolution for Educational Games (2005)
Presented at the International DiGRA Conference, June 16th - 20th, 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (http://www.gamesconference.org/digra2005/overview.php)
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Effect of Task on Time Spent Reading as an Implicit Measure of Interest (2004)
Melanie Kellar, Carolyn Watters, Jack Duffy, Michael Shepherd
Information Filtering systems learn user preferences either through explicit or implicit feedback. However, requiring users to explicitly rate items as part of the interface interaction can place a...
© Rinton Press CYBERGENRE: AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF HOME PAGES ON THE WEB (2004)
Michael Shepherd, Carolyn Watters, Alistair Kennedy
web pages by their genres. The long term goal is the incorporation of web page genre into the search process to improve the quality of the search results. In this phase, a neural net classifier was...
Paper: B The User and the Digital Library (2003)
Presentation discusses the designing of Digital library as par the user expectations. Presentation discusses issues like Query formation, Document Matching, Ranking of search results and...
Bob Woodham, UBC (Chair) (2002)
Stella Atkins Sfu, Alberto Mendelzon Toronto, Ian Munro, Prakash Panangaden Mcgill, Phil Scott, Carolyn Watters
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Browsing and Keyword-Based Profiles: A Cautionary Tale (2001)
Michael Shepherd, Carolyn Watters, Jack Duffy, Raj Kaushik
In this research, adaptive user profiles are used to rate Web pages with respect to possible user interest. The user profiles consist of weighted keywords and the adaptation is based on the Hebbian...
Browsing and Keyword-Based Profiles: A Cautionary Tale (2001)
Michael Shepherd, Carolyn Watters, Jack Duffy, Raj Kaushik
In this research, adaptive user profiles are used to rate Web pages with respect to possible user interest. The user profiles consist of weighted keywords and the adaptation is based on the Hebbian...
Information Retrieval and the Virtual Document (1999)
After many years building the foundation of the digital library, information retrieval has emerged from its roots in bibliographic retrieval to establish its role in hypertext and Web applications....
Maria Milosavljevic, Fabio Vitali, Carolyn Watters (eds.)
s are available from the same host in the directory /pub/TR/UBLCS/ABSTRACTS in plain text format. All local authors can be reached via e-mail at the address last-name@cs.unibo.it. Recent titles from...
Filtering for medical news items using a machine learning approach.
Zheng, Wanhong, Milios, Evangelos, Watters, Carolyn
We address the problem of filtering medical news articles for targeted audiences. The approach is based on terms and one of the difficulties is extracting a feature set appropriate for the domain....