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Personalized Pedestrian Navigation Assistant: User Profile Assessment in PC-RE Framework
| Author: | Xiangkui Yao |
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| Date: | January 26, 2007 |
| Time: | 10:00 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
| Committee: | Steve Fickas (Chair) Art Farley Amy Lobben |
Abstract
Personalization has been applied and researched in the field of adaptive user interface, e-commerce, and requirements engineering. Many personalized systems don?t work well because of difficulty in inferring users? characteristics, particularly in the early stage of application usage. I propose that the alternative is to pay attention to users? abilities, goals, and preferences at the very early stage of requirements engineering. I will use the Personal and Contextual Requirements Engineering Framework to approach personalization. I propose to use personalized pedestrian navigation system to demonstrate how individual profile assessment could be done under the PC-RE framework, because individuals exhibit considerable individual differences in spatial abilities and strategies related to navigation. In my area exam, I will review existing works on personalization in the areas of adaptive user interfaces, e-commerce, and requirements engineering. In addition, I will review the framework of PC-RE, the domain theory of spatial abilities, related works on pedestrian navigation systems. In the end, I discuss delivery and evaluation of proposed studies.