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Shin, Jongu. "Modeling users' powertrain preferences." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62670.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2010.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 79).<br>Our goal is to construct a system that can determine a drivers preferences and goals and perform appropriate actions to aid the driver achieving his goals and improve the quality of his road behavior. Because the recommendation problem could be achieved effectively once we know the driver's intention, in this thesis, we are going to solve the problem to determine the driver's preferences.

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Recalde, Lorena. "Modeling users preferences in online social networks." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/663756.

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L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és desenvolupar nous i diversos mètodes per modelar les preferències dels usuaris a les Xarxes Socials Online. Els mètodes proposats tenen com a finalitat ser aplicats en àrees de recerca com la Personalització o Recomanació d'ítems i la Detecció de Grups d'Usuaris amb gustos similars. Aquests mètodes poden ser agrupats en dos tipus: i) mètodes basats en tècniques d'anàlisi de textos (Part I, Capítols del 3 al 5) i ii) mètodes basats en teoria de grafs (Part II, Capítols 6 i 7). Amb els mètodes plantejats a la Part I és possible determinar el nivell d'interès dels

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MacBean, Anna Ruth. "Apparent Preferences of Beach Users at Virginia Beach Resort Zone." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19299.

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After compiling an appropriate list of beach criteria from established award programs and experts, the research landscape architect observed the Virginia Beach Resort Zone for areas of intense beach user activity. The resulting analysis of these "hot-spots" indicated that urban resort beach users visiting the recreational beach during high-use times tended to gravitate toward locations on the resort beach which were close to three needs: public parking, public restrooms, and inexpensive refreshments. This pattern shows the apparent preferences of many beach users for certain amenities.<br>M

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Mignot, Helen R. "Users and accounting information preferences of government department financial reports." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1996. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/936.

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The introduction of an accounting standard requiring government departments to replace fund-type, cash-based accounting statements with business-type, accrual based accounting statements has led to criticism that business-type, general purpose financial statements do not take account of the information requirements of major users. Such criticism echoes a long standing debate in which the users of public sector financial statements and their informational requirements are analysed in competing models. One view suggests that there are many users with homogeneous informational needs, who can be c

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Bhoompally, Rohit. "Analysis of business ranking for a connected group of Yelp users by aggregating preference pairs." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439308101.

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Seymour, Zakiya Ayo-Zahra. "Understanding what sanitation users value - examining preferences and behaviors for sanitation systems." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52168.

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Over the last two decades, sanitation policy and development has undergone a paradigm shift away from heavily-subsidized, supply-driven approaches towards behavioral-based demand-driven approaches. These current approaches to increase sanitation demand are multi-faceted, requiring multiple stakeholders with varying degrees of interest, knowledge, and capacity. Although efforts exist to increase sanitation access by incorporating engineering design principles with implementation planning approaches, these groups generally work independently without strong connections, thus reducing the potenti

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SANCHEZ, ODNAN REF. "A Framework to Support Users’ Privacy Preferences in the Proliferation of IoT." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/945921.

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In the proliferation of personal IoT devices, the need for privacy protection becomes an increasing concern. User’s privacy preferences are not being respected in today’s complex IoT scenario, as data sharing among applications becomes a growing phenomenon. The increasing number of applications, IoT devices and list of user’s personal data make the setting of privacy a laborious task for the users. On the other hand, supposedly trusted third parties that access personal data have been recently reported to invade user privacy. Thus, this thesis proposes a privacy framework that computes the ris

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Pukawan, Kriangsak. "The Attitudes and Preferences of Internet Users in Thailand Toward Online Privacy Rights." NSUWorks, 2006. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/781.

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This study strives to solicit and assimilate the attitudes and preferences of online users in Thailand concerning their privacy rights. It is designed to resolve this noticeable void in Thai information technology policy. Three sub problems are separately investigated by use of a questionnaire used to discern Thai uneasiness about (1) the clandestine commercial collection and dissemination of personal online data profiles, (2) a wide variety of online criminal activities that should merit government regulation and intervention, and (3) Internet users' trust in their government to curtail onlin

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Kolivodiakos, Paraskevas. "Evaluating End Users’ Online Privacy Preferences and Identifying PET Design Requirements: A Literature Review." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Datavetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-67720.

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In this research end user privacy preferences regarding online resources web and mobile applications and websites are investigated and design requirements needed for the development of a privacy focused, privacy enhancing technology tool are identified, as derived from the literature, the crowd source based solution is the most appealing solution so it is fully analyzed according to our research main focus.

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Schaap, Robbert-Jan [Verfasser], and Florian [Akademischer Betreuer] Diekert. "The Dynamic Preferences and Incentives of Natural Resource Users / Robbert-Jan Schaap ; Betreuer: Florian Diekert." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1234460602/34.

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Wang, Feng. "Inferring users' multi-attribute preferences from the reviews for augmenting recommender systems in e-commerce." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2016. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/336.

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By now, people are accustomed to getting some personalized recommendations when they are finding movies to watch, music to listen, and so on. All of these recommendations come from recommender systems, and can aid the process of the decision making to avoid the problem of "information overload". Over the years, there has been much work done both in industry and academia on developing new approaches for recommender systems. However, there are still some hurdles in adapting recommender systems to a broader range of real-life applications. In the e-commerce environment especially with the so call

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Metcalfe, Christina. "Chatbot or voice assistant in a help desk application? : A study of users’ experiences and preferences." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-185335.

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Companies across a wide range of business areas are working hard to fulfill users wishes to speak to digital voice assistants. The trend of replacing chatbots in favour for voice assistants carries a risk of companies not considering which applications will actually benefit from getting a voice user interface (VUI) resulting in poor user experience. This thesis aims to investigate which help desk support task will benefit from being implemented in a VUI. By following the Service Design methodology, research on the topic has been conducted and a prototype has been build and tested on a target

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Bajnaid, Ayman Naji. "A study of online impression formation, mate preferences and courtship scripts among Saudi users of matrimonial websites." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/37171.

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While traditional Saudi Arabian courtship is rigidly structured according to a set of Islamic codes of conduct, over the past decade, Saudis have increasingly turned to unconventional means of finding and courting a potential spouse: matrimonial websites. Given that little research has been done on this emerging form of courtship, which differs substantially from Western-style online dating, this research examines the impressions Saudi users intended to form when constructing their profiles on matrimonial websites, the characteristics these users seek in their potential spouses, and the accept

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Kaviti, Shruthi. "Profiles, Preferences, and Reactions to Price Changes of Bikeshare Users| A Comprehensive Look at Capital Bikeshare Data." Thesis, George Mason University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10934331.

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<p> In the decade since 2007, public bikeshare systems (PBS) have disrupted the landscape of urban transportation systems all over the world. The rapid pace at which urban systems are enduring this disruption due to PBS has left cities and researchers play catch up on understanding various factors impacting the usage and impacts of PBS. Comprehending the profiles and preferences of bikeshare users have a substantial role to play in policy-making, planning and operational management at PBS. However, the research is scant related to these factors. </p><p> As its first major objective, this res

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Loper, Christen E. "Valuing networks of marine reserves an assessment of recreational users' preferences for marine conservation in California's Channel Islands /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 231 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654492721&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Hassan, Abdallah, and Arsalan Syed. "An Assessment of Collaborative Filtering-Based Recommender Systems : And their Ability to take the Individual Preferences of Users into Account." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-208407.

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This study investigated the effect that aggregation functions and similarity measures had on the accuracy of memory based collaborative filtering algorithms, specifically in the case when the actual rating that a user would provide deviates significantly from the rating that the average user would provide. Nine different combinations of algorithms were implemented by using three different aggregation functions and three different similarity measures. These algorithms were tested on the MovieLens dataset and the similarity measures used were the Pearson correlation, JPSS and JEPSS which is a mo

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Margier, Jennifer. "Eliciting healthcare users' preferences for home care versus hospital care in cancer : development of a decision aid integrating a contingent valuation survey." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE1314.

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En France le traitement du cancer est principalement dominé par les plateaux techniques hospitaliers, mais ceux-ci sont saturés et jugés trop coûteux. Pour ces raisons, les décideurs publics souhaitent développer des structures alternatives : l’hospitalisation à domicile ou les structures de proximités (SP) comme les maisons de santé pluridisciplinaires. Objectif :-Etudier l’adéquation entre les politiques publiques de santé et les préférences des patients et de la population générale.-Tester l’acceptabilité et la validité de la méthode de l’évaluation contingente (EV) (enquête de Disposition

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Lybecker, Erik. "User preference prediction between ads-supported and subscribed users." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-240589.

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The goal of this master’s thesis was to create a model that predicts preference towards a specific exclusive feature in a subscribed service. It investigated unsupervised and semi-supervised learning to identify customer segments that prefer an specific exclusive feature. These customers segments were then used as targets for supervised learning algorithms to predict which segment a user on the ads-supported version would belong to. Two experiments was preformed, one to investigate and identify customer segments with the help of a survey and secondly, the preference prediction. It was found th

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Lund, Linda. "Aesthetics in User Interface Design: : The Influence on Users' Preference, Decoding and Learning." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för teknik och estetik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-10455.

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The question of the relationship between, and the importance of usability and aesthetics, in the field of user interface design, has been debated back and forth. It has also been looked at from different perspectives since Raskin (1994) wrote his article on intuitive design. Several experiments have also been conducted over the last twenty years to find out exactly how much each factor matter, what the ultimate user preference is, and if it can be stereotyped. The more complex part of the discussion, however, seems to be the definitions: exactly what is aesthetics, what is usability and how do

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Dimov, Ivan. "The users’ perspective and preference on three user interface website design patterns and their usability." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-59716.

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This study is qualitative and interpretive in nature. It examines the perception of 6 people aged 23-32 with decent experience in using the Web on the usability of three user interface website design patterns. These patterns are the ‘hamburger’ icon (an icon used primarily in mobile websites and apps that shows a hidden navigation when clicked), CAPTCHAs (a task that users have to complete to continue browsing a webpage to prevent automated software operating on the webpage) and returning to the homepage. It searches for the characteristics that they desire to see in those three user interface

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Ben, Messaoud Rim. "Towards efficient mobile crowdsensing assignment and uploading schemes." Thesis, Paris Est, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PESC1031/document.

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L’ubiquité des terminaux intelligents équipés de capteurs a donné naissance à un nouveau paradigme de collecte participative des données appelé Crowdsensing. Pour mener à bien les tâches de collecte, divers défis relatifs à l’implication des participants et des demandeurs de services doivent être relevés. Dans ce contexte, nous abordons quatre questions majeures inhérentes à ce problème: Comment affecter les tâches de collecte afin de maximiser la qualité des données d’une façon éco-énergétique ? Comment minimiser le temps nécessaire à la collecte et au traitement des tâches? Comment inciter l

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Parpairi, Katerina. "Daylighting in architecture : quality and user preferences." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396080.

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NUNES, INGRID OLIVEIRA DE. "USER-CENTRIC PREFERENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=28780@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>A escolha de uma entre um conjunto de opções disponível normalmente requer a resolução de trade-offs, contudo esperar que as pessoas avaliem cada uma das opções de um grande conjunto pode ser inviável devido ao tempo e ao esforço cognitivo necessários para realizar tal análise, fazendo com que elas fiquem freqüentemente insatisfeitas com suas escolhas. Sistemas de software podem dar suporte à tomada de decisão humana ou mesmo automatizar esse processo, entretanto existem muito

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Confalonieri, Roberto. "The Role of preferences in logic programming: nonmonotonic reasoning, user preferences, decision under uncertainty." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/84042.

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Intelligent systems that assist users in fulfilling complex tasks need a concise and processable representation of incomplete and uncertain information. In order to be able to choose among different options, these systems also need a compact and processable representation of the concept of preference. Preferences can provide an effective way to choose the best solutions to a given problem. These solutions can represent the most plausible states of the world when we model incomplete information, the most satisfactory states of the world when we express user preferences, or optimal decision

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Middleton, Stuart Edward. "Capturing knowledge of user preferences with recommender systems." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2003. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/257857/.

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Capturing user preferences is a problematic task. Simply asking the users what they want is too intrusive and prone to error, yet monitoring behaviour unobtrusively and finding meaningful patterns is both difficult and computationally time consuming. Capturing accurate user preferences is, however, an essential task if the information systems of tomorrow are to respond dynamically to the changing needs of their users. This thesis tests the hypothesis that using an ontology to represent user profiles offers advantages over traditional profile representations in the context of recommender system

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Ali, Miran. "Changing a user’s search experience byincorporating preferences of metadata." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-154608.

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Implicit feedback is usually data that comes from users’ clicks, search queries and text highlights. It exists in abun- dance, but it is riddled with much noise and requires advanced algorithms to properly make good use of it. Several findings suggest that factors such as click-through data and reading time could be used to create user behaviour models in order to predict the users’ information need. This Master’s thesis aims to use click-through data and search queries together with heuristics to create a model that prioritises metadata-fields of the documents in order to predict the informat

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Mukhtar, Hamid. "Middleware for ad hoc user task composition in heterogeneous environments considering user preferences." Thesis, Evry, Institut national des télécommunications, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009TELE0015/document.

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En raison du grand succès des réseaux sans _l et des appareils portatifs, le paradigme de l'informatique pervasive est devenu une réalité. L'un des plus di_ciles objectifs à atteindre dans de tels environnements est de permettre à l'utilisateur d'exécuter une tâche en composant à la volée, les services et les ressources de l'environnement. Cela implique la correspondance et la sélection automatique de services à travers divers dispositifs de l'environnement pervasif. Les approches existantes considèrent souvent seulement les aspects fonctionnels des services et ne prennent pas en compte diff é

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Tosun, Leman Pinar. "Preference For Communication Technologies: Characteristics Of Channels, Users And Communication Situations." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612668/index.pdf.

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In the current study, it was aimed to explore young adults&rsquo<br>communication technology preferences in friendships. With this aim, two survey studies were conducted on university students. In the first study 178 students and in the second study 343 students were surveyed. The findings of both studies demonstrated that (a) face-to-face communication was the most preferred communication,(b) preference for face-to-face communication was positively associated to preference for auditory communication, and negatively associated to preference for written communication, (c) several individual di

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Canal, Camprodon Gerard. "Adapting robot behavior to user preferences in assistive scenarios." Doctoral thesis, TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669799.

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Robotic assistants have inspired numerous books and science fiction movies. In the real world, these kinds of devices are a growing need in amongst the elderly, who while life continue requiring more assistance. While life expectancy is increasing, life quality is not necessarily doing so. Thus, we may find ourselves and our loved ones being dependent and needing another person to perform the most basic tasks, which has a strong psychological impact. Accordingly, assistive robots may be the definitive tool to give more quality of life by empowering dependent people and extending their indepen

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Silveirinha, De Oliveira Eva Maria. "Immigrants and public open spaces : attitudes, preferences and uses." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7953.

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Migration is becoming a major political and social issue in a global context. However, while immigrants’ integration into the hosting society and cities has sparked research investigations, there have been few studies focusing on how their presence affects the urban fabric, especially their use of public open spaces and even less is known about how, and in what way, such spaces have an impact on the immigrants themselves. The scope of this research is to gain a better understanding of how immigrants use, perceive and experience public open spaces. The research focuses on the case study of publ

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Park, Kyounga. "Learning user preferences for intelligent adaptive in-vehicle navigation." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506034.

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Lindmark, Cecilia, and Jonas Nilsson. "Modeling user preferences and norms in context-aware systems." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-128305.

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The aim of this thesis has been to theoretically investigate how a context- aware system for mobile applications should behave when a phone call is received while driving in a general setting, while the system considers user preferences and norms. By norm, we mean a sort of rule that a user has to follow in a given environment, e.q. traffic. The investigation has lead to an approach on how a general setting could be implemented; in particular, by general setting we mean that the user is a car driver and the environment is the public roads. A given system (e.q. an app) supports the interaction

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Widstrand, Ellen. "Experiencing the Built Environment : Architectural Aesthetics and User Preferences." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-286111.

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Social hållbarhet är ett ämne som är mer aktuellt nu än någonsin, även om det sällan diskuteras i samband med estetik i den bebyggda miljön. De miljöer vi bygger är också de platser där vi tillbringar majoriteten av vår tid, och de påverkar hur vi mår. I takt med att städer växer och blir tätare så blir gestaltningen av dessa platser allt viktigare. Estetiken utgör en stor del av den bebyggda miljön och vår upplevelse när vi rör oss i städerna. Studier visar på att människor föredrar vissa estetiska element framför andra, och att både kropp och hjärna reagerar på estetiska stimuli. I den här u

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Aydinli, Aykut. "Interface Design: Personal Preference Analysis." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610035/index.pdf.

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This thesis analyzes the relationship between users&rsquo<br>characteristics and users&rsquo<br>interface preferences. An online survey is developed for this study. This survey composed of two types of questions: (1) users&rsquo<br>personal information such as age, gender, country, cognitive structure, and also computer experience and (2) user interface elements. More than 2,500 participants from 120 different countries throughout the world completed our survey. Results were analyzed using cross tables. Our findings show that there is a relationship between users&rsquo<br>characteristics and u

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Stensö, Isak, and Andreas Rosenback. "A Random Indexing Approach to User Preference Prediction." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-186276.

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Predicting user preferences is a common problem for many companies and services. With the growth of Internet services it becomes both more important and more lucrative being able to predict what products a user would like and then recommend these to them. There are many ways of attempting this, but this study attempts to use random indexing to solve the same problem. Random indexing is a method that has been used successfully when studying the similarity between words, and allows entities to be represented as vectors with relatively small dimensionality. This would allow for fast and memory-ef

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Sjölander, Emil. "Exploring Personalizing Content Density Preference from User Behavior." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-112809.

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In an increasingly populated area of mobile applications craving a user’s attention it is of increasing importance to engage the user through a personalized user experience. This includes delivering content which the user is likely to enjoy as well as showcasing that content in a way such that the user is likely to interact with it. This thesis details the exploration of personalizing the content density of articles in the popular mobile application Flipboard. We use past user behavior to power classification of content density preference using random forests. Our results indicate that a perso

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Bailey, Breanna Michelle Weir. "Incorporating user design preferences into multi-objective roof truss optimization." Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/5932.

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Automated systems for large-span roof truss optimization provide engineers with the flexibility to consider multiple alternatives during conceptual design. This investigation extends previous work on multi-objective roof truss optimization to include the design preferences of a human user. The incorporation of user preferences into the optimization process required creation of a mechanism to identify and model preferences as well as discovery of an appropriate location within the algorithm for preference application. The first stage of this investigation developed a characteristic feature vect

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Meyer, Georg. "Internet user preferences in relation to cognitive and affective styles." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.

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Brochu, Eric. "Interactive Bayesian optimization : learning user preferences for graphics and animation." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30519.

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Bayesian optimization with Gaussian processes has become increasingly popular in the machine learning community. It is efficient and can be used when very little is known about the objective function, making it useful for optimizing expensive black box functions. We examine the case of using Bayesian optimization when the objective function requires feedback from a human. We call this class of problems \emph{interactive} Bayesian optimization. Here, we assume a parameterized model, and a user whose task is to find an acceptable set of parameters according to some perceptual value function t

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Wu, Qiujin. "Accommodating user preferences in the optimisation of public transport travel." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441487.

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Currently, most of the big cities are facing the traffic congestion problem. Encouraging more people to use public transportation is considered as one of the best solutions (Hartley and Bargiela, 2001). To provide travellers with individual travel advice for journeys, today's Advanced Traffic Information Systems require efficient algorithms that are able to find the `best' route(s) for the public transport users according to their preferences. The aim of this research is to develop optimal and efficient time-dependent shortest path(s) algorithms which can accommodate public transportation user

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Bussey, Shelagh Christine. "Public uses, preferences and perceptions of urban woodlands in Redditch." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360089.

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The urban woodlands in Redditch are integral elements of greenspace that are highly valued as an informal recreational resource, and for the physical and spiritual benefits that the community derives from visual and physical contact with them, on a daily basis. However, that they are cherished community assets, rather than places to be avoided, depends on contextually specific requirements being met, in regard to their siting and design. The thesis discusses these key criteria from the perspective of the Redditch urban community. It is identified that a choice of woods should be located within

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Skinner, Whitney Ann Liu Tsai Lu. "User-centered design evaluation by application of biofeedback technology." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Summer/Theses/SKINNER_WHITNEY_38.pdf.

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Zhao, Yuchen. "Recommending privacy preferences in location-sharing services." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11055.

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Location-sharing services have become increasingly popular with the proliferation of smartphones and online social networks. People share their locations with each other to record their daily lives or satisfy their social needs. At the same time, inappropriate disclosure of location information poses threats to people's privacy. One of the reasons why people fail to protect their location privacy is the difficulty of using the current mechanisms to manually configure location-privacy settings. Since people's location-privacy preferences are context-aware, manual configuration is cumbersome. Pe

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Neethling, Riaan. "Search engine optimisation or paid placement systems-user preference /." Thesis, [S.l. : s.n.], 2007. http://dk.cput.ac.za/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1076&context=td_cput.

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MacLennan, Alan. "Design of virtual worlds for accessing information : discovery of user preferences." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/320.

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This thesis describes a study carried out with the aim of discovering user preferences as to the design of 3-dimensional virtual worlds for accessing information. No literature was found which dealt with this topic, and it was therefore thought that, rather than ask users to make a selection from arbitrarily-chosen designs, it would be informative to consult the users from the beginning of the design process. To this end, a Grounded Theory methodology was adopted, and users were selected from postgraduate students and staff from Information Management courses at the Robert Gordon University, A

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Ghandahari, Daniel. "Learning User Preferences for Recommending Radio Channels in a Music Service." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-393278.

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Playing music is considered essential for some businesses. When entering a clothing store, a café or a gym, there is most often some music playing in the background. The employees do not have the ability to select music optimally to maximize profit. Their expertise lies within their main duties of the workplace and they should spend most of their time focusing on those duties for an efficient workflow. The problem that arises is how businesses can play suitable music with minimal effort in music selection. To solve this, a recommender system is built with the real-time machine learning algorit

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Ting, Chen Shu, and 陳淑婷. "Preferences Of The Users' Needs Study Aid With Aromatherapy." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57324963112409104446.

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碩士<br>明道大學<br>設計學院碩士班<br>103<br>Aromatherapy can be used to enhance the natural aroma of home atmosphere aromatherapy beauty therapy research, medical, emotional therapy, been recognized and confirmed its effectiveness many related units. Aromatherapy aids occupy an important role in modern life, with the life quality improvement, aromatherapy aids mushroomed released, in addition to pay attention to home aromatherapy, but also when they go out in a fragrant, this study, the most common aromatherapy fogging machine (water, oxygen machine), washing machine, dryer Diffuser, Diffuser bamboo,

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Drewery, David. "Understanding Complaining Behaviour and Users' Preferences for Service Recovery: An Experiment." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/8132.

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Many services fail. Failures are those encounters during which the user assesses the service as flawed (Maxham & Netemeyer, 2003; Palmer, Beggs, & Keown-McMullan, 2000), or improper (Maxham, 2001). An emergent service failure literature has determined that such failures play an important role in user perceptions and subsequent behaviours. The present study sought to discover the ways in which possible users responded to an ambiguous service failure. The purpose of the study was to twofold: (a) to understand the situational, emotional, and dispositional factors which influence users??? likeli

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Chien, John, and 簡鳳江. "Automatic Acquisition and Application of Users' Semantic Preferences for Adaptive Information Retrieval." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89025646318241369008.

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碩士<br>中華大學<br>資訊工程學系碩士班<br>87<br>Abstract With the explosive growth of on-line information on various kinds of platforms (e.g. the library and the Internet), users may have more opportunities to get information conveniently. However, without an efficient and personalized information retrieval (IR) system, the users could also be misleader in the huge amount of information. Therefore, how to search for useful information for each individual users has become an urgent problem for most researchers in IR, library science and the Internet. To attack the problem, IR s

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LO, MING-CHUNG, and 羅銘中. "A Study of the Preferences of Senior Users on Smartphone Main Menu." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30826200902825337309.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣藝術大學<br>多媒體動畫藝術學系新媒體藝術碩士班<br>103<br>The number of people using smartphones increases each year, particularly among those who are 45-to-65 years old. Although most younger users do not have problems whenever any interface come up against them, the old populaces do not feel the same way. As these senior users get older, their sensations get weaker, causing even more difficulties on operating and understanding their smartphones; especially those latest smartphones nowadays, which comprise images and functions way more complex. The purpose of this case study is to find out how the satisf

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