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Showing 1 to 20 of 117 for “"user preferences"”.
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Considering User Preferences In Autonomous Agent Tasks
… must respond to a variety of changes. Human users have a variety of needs and preferences, and agents should be able to follow those preferences across a wide range of users. This thesis advances human-robot interaction by adapting autonomous agent tasks to user preferences from feedback. Our …
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Utilising structured information for the representation and elicitation of user preferences
We make use of preferences every day. When we shop for a book or choose a meal; when we select music to listen to or which vacation destination to travel to on our summer holiday. Preferences are the key element in reasoning about these decisions. Therefore, the modeling and handling of preferences …
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Design of virtual worlds for accessing information : discovery of user preferences.
… 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 …
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Plug-in vehicles and carsharing : user preferences, energy consumption and potential for growth
… and a Hybrid Choice Model of carsharing user preferences. This dissertation's primary contributions consist of the combination of Hybrid Choice Models with a Structural Topic Model to incorporate respondent comments, a two-level representation of the assignment problem faced by carsharing …
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Digital Health for Diabetes Self-Management Among Black Men: Barriers, Facilitators, and User Preferences
… aimed to explore the barriers, facilitators, and user preferences of digital health use for diabetes self-management among Black men while also investigating clinicians’ perspectives of digital health use for clinical decision making and management of diabetes. Chapter one contains an introduction …
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The tools we use : a study of user preferences for sketches, prototypes, and CAD models and the influence on design outcome
… is vital to interpreting potential user feedback accurately In this dissertation, I investigate these questions about early-stage design process: I. How does the use of a specific design tool influence the design outcome? II. What design attributes do designers associate with these …
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User preferences in the use of Law Library collections : a case study of the Brand van Zyl Law Library of the University of Cape Town
… in order to establish their library usage and preferences. The researcher undertook the quantitative approach since the qualitative approach in the form of interviews and observations had earlier been effectuated by the researcher during his internship in this library. In the investigation …
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JoVA-hinge: joint variational autoencoders for personalized recommendation with implicit feedback
… These existing recommendation models learn user representations to reconstruct or predict user preferences. However, existing VAE-based recommendation models learn user and item representations separately. This thesis introduces joint variational autoencoders (JoVA). JoVA, as an ensemble of …
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Personalized route generation for Mountain Biking cycling based on the user’s profile
… for Mountain Biking cycling based on the user’s profile. Advisor: Jugurta Lisboa Filho. The popularity of cycling has been on the rise both as a sustainable transport alter- native and as a leisure activity, through Mountain Biking (MTB). As its popularity increases, so does the need for …
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Investigation of an intelligent personalised service recommendation system in an IMS based cellular mobile network
… phones should be intelligent enough to match user’s unique needs and preferences to provide a truly personalised service tailored for the individual user. In the first part of this thesis, the importance and role of personalisation in future mobile networks is studied. This is followed, by an …
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Beach user opinions and the development of a beach quality rating scale
… study into questionnaire investigation of beach user opinions and perceptions, a survey was conducted of users of four beaches (Southerndown, Nash, Ogmore and Llantwit), at the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, Wales. Beach perceptions were assessed in terms of socio-demographics, psychological …
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Electrical Load Disaggregation and Demand Response in Commercial Buildings
… the power consumption of devices and giving users detailed feedback at an individual device level. Based on the data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), approximately half of all commercial buildings in the U.S. are 5,000 square feet or smaller in size, whereas the majority of …
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Interactive Image Filling-In
… in unwanted regions, none of which incorporate user preferences into the structure completion process. By building a framework to incorporate user preferences into the filling-in process, user input can be utilized to more effectively fill in damaged regions in an image. User input can influence …
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Semantic Protection and Personalization of Video Content. PIAF: MPEG Compliant Adaptation Framework Preserving the User Perceived Quality
UME is the notion that a user should receive informative adapted content anytime and anywhere. Personalization of videos, which adapts their content according to user preferences, is a vital aspect of achieving the UME vision. User preferences can be translated into several types of constraints …
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Comparing Quadratic Voting and Likert Surveys
… conclusion showed QV aligned more closely with user preferences than Likert surveys through qualitative and quantitative analysis.
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Personalized Algorithmic Recourse: Towards a human-centric approach for algorithmic contestability
… to this concept since they identify changes a user could make to achieve a favourable outcome. For instance, a CE might suggest that a loan application would have been approved if the applicant’s salary were 10% higher. While CEs resonate with human reasoning and offer practical benefits, …
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soMLier: A South African Wine Recommender System
… 5-star ratings and textual reviews made by users worldwide were further scraped from Vivino.com to serve as a dataset of user preferences. Together, these are used to develop and compare several systems, the most optimal of which are combined in the final system. Item-based collaborative …
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A Hybrid Recommendation System Based on Association Rules
… system recommends items to a particular user based on user preferences and previous high ratings. Various recommendation schemes such as collaborative filtering and content-based approaches are used to build a recommendation system. Most of current recommendation systems were developed to …
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Achieving real-time video summarization on commodity hardware
… summaries almost instantly, and for learning user preferences over time—two processes which are often overlooked in work on video summarization, but essential for real-world use
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