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Inhabited Models: Supporting Coherent Behavior in Online Systems

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User Modeling 2005 (UM 2005)

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A principal focus of user modeling has been on modeling individuals, the aim being to support the design of interactive systems that can fluidly adapt to their users’ needs. In this talk I shift the focus from interactions between a human and a computer, to interactions amongst people that are mediated by a digital system. My interest has to do with how to design online systems that can support the blend of flexibility and coherence that characterizes face to face interaction. I describe my approach, which involves creating shared visualizations of people and their activities in online situations such as chats, presentations, and auctions. This kind of visualization – which serves as a sort of inhabited model of an activity – plays a number of roles in supporting group interaction that is both flexible and coherent.

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  1. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598, USA

    Thomas Erickson

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Corso Svizzera 185, 10149, Torino, Italy

    Liliana Ardissono

  2. The SCRE Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Eldon Street, P.O. Box, G3 6NH, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Paul Brna

  3. Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, P.O. Box, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Antonija Mitrovic

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Erickson, T. (2005). Inhabited Models: Supporting Coherent Behavior in Online Systems. In: Ardissono, L., Brna, P., Mitrovic, A. (eds) User Modeling 2005. UM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3538. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11527886_3

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