Presented to KULeuven students on 5 October 2011

1. Wetenschappelijke vorming
HCI
Erik Duval
Dept. Computerwetenschappen
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~erikd/

2. http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval
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4. Visualizing recommendations
The student will investigate how novel visualizations can
significantly improve user understanding of the typically
”black‐box” rationale behind recommendations, in order
to increase their perceived relevancy and meaning.
In addition, she will research how novel user feedback
approaches can empower users with actionable
knowledge to become an active and responsible part‐
taker in the recommending process, instead of being the
typical passive provider of preferences and social
connections.
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5. • J. L. Herlocker, J. A. Konstan, L. G. Terveen, and J. T. Riedl. Evaluating
collaborative filtering recommender systems. ACM Transactions
on Information Systems, 22(1):5–53, 2004.
• J. O’Donovan, B. Smyth, B. Gretarsson, S. Bostandjiev, and T.
Höllerer. PeerChooser: Visual Interactive Recommendation. In
Proceedings of CHI08, pages 1085–1088. ACM, 2008.
• C. Plaisant. The challenge of information visualization evaluation.
In Proceedings of AVI04: working conference on Advanced visual
interfaces, pages 109–116. ACM, 2004.
• John O'Donovan, Barry Smyth, Brynjar Gretarsson, Svetlin
Bostandjiev, and Tobias Höllerer. 2008. PeerChooser: visual
interactive recommendation. CHI08, 1085-1088.
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6. application in
Technology Enhanced
Learning, music or
science2.0
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7. Visualizing Linked Open Data
The student will research how linked open data (about
researchers, publications, affiliations, etc.) can be merged
and visualized in a way that enables interested parties to
explore the available information and link it to their own
research activities.
(link to TinyARM, ResearchTable, Muse, ...)
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9. • Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Tim Berners-Lee, Linked Data - The
Story So Far, to appear in: Heath, T., Hepp, M., and Bizer, C. (eds.).
Special Issue on Linked Data, International Journal on Semantic
Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS).
• Christian Bizer, Jens Lehmann, Georgi Kobilarov, Sören Auer,
Christian Becker, Richard Cyganiak, Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia
- A crystallization point for the Web of Data, Web Semantics:
Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web (7) 3, Sept.
2009, pp.154-165
• Nazemi Kawa, Breyer Matthias, Forster Jeanette, Burkhardt Dirk,
Kuijper Arjan, Interacting with Semantics: A User-Centered
Visualization Adaptation Based on Semantics Data, In Human
Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting with
Information, LNCS Vol 6771, 2011, pp.239-248
• Paul Groth,Yolanda Gil, LinkedDataLens: Linked Data as a
Network of Networks, In K-CAP11, pp.191-192, 2011
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10. keuzes...
• gebruik, configuratie en evaluatie van bestaand systeem
• ontwerp en implementatie van nieuw systeem
• analyseren analytics van bestaand systeem+aanpassingen
• conceptuele literatuurstudie
• vb. evaluatiecriteria en -methodes
• ...
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11. Questions?
http://erikduval.wordpress.com/
twitter: @ErikDuval
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