Daily Note: Feedback, Context, and Interactions

These notes are a summary of concepts presented in “Dimensions of adaptivity in mobile systems: Personality and people’s attitudes.”

Graziola, Ilenia & Pianesi, Fabio & Zancanaro, Massimo & Goren Bar, Dina. (2005). Dimensions of adaptivity in mobile systems: Personality and people’s attitudes. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI. 223-230. 10.1145/1040830.1040879.

Feedback Mechanisms
- The role of feedback systems in collecting local contextual information
- Challenges in determining what constitutes timely and relevant information
- Facilitating effective feedback systems and loops
Contextual User Modeling
- Nature of Local Contextual Information:
  - Environment
  - Time
- Maintaining and Evaluating Models of User Profiles:
  - Interests
  - Knowledge and/or knowledge level
  - Routines
- Ancillary, or local data systems:
  - Data collection devices and methods
    - Privacy
- Interface Elements:
  - Communicating relevant and valuable information (system reciprocity or an element of feedback loops)
  - Representing interest relationships and cross-referencing based on interactions
  - Strategies for building trust
  - Real-time data collection through pervasive surveys in various contexts
Delegation of Control
- Exploring the role and/or roles of delegation
  - Intelligent systems delegating initiative to users
  - Users delegating initiative to systems.
- Barriers to user trust and willingness to delegate tasks
- Balancing user control
Interaction and Adaptation
- Determining the appropriate length and nature of interactions
- Accounting for stimuli that trigger meaningful responses
  - Physiological response data
  - Alternatives to physiological data
Theoretical Foundations
- Locus of Control:
  - The user’s perception of control over events in their life
- Five-Factor Model of Personality:
  - Extraversion
  - Agreeableness
  - Conscientiousness
  - Neuroticism
  - Openness to Experience