Abstract. This paper gives an overview of the Jacob project. This project involves the construction of a 3D virtual environment where an animated human-like agent called Jacob give...
The paper presents a visualization-based approach to explore large databases of geographic metadata. The aim of the data exploration is to search and acquire expressive geographic...
Riccardo Albertoni, Alessio Bertone, Monica De Mar...
In this paper we present the digital library assistant (DiLiA). The system aims at augmenting the search in digital libraries in several dimensions. In the project advanced informa...
We study protocols to enable one user (the principal) to make potentially profitable but risky interactions with another user (the agent), in the absence of direct trust between ...
An adaptive user interface relies, to a large extent, upon an adequate user model (e.g., a representationof user-expertise). However, building a user model may be a tedious and ti...