User Interaction Modeling and Profile Extraction in Interactive Systems: A Groupware Application Case Study

Sensors (Basel). 2017 Jul 20;17(7):1669. doi: 10.3390/s17071669.

Abstract

A relevant goal in human-computer interaction is to produce applications that are easy to use and well-adjusted to their users' needs. To address this problem it is important to know how users interact with the system. This work constitutes a methodological contribution capable of identifying the context of use in which users perform interactions with a groupware application (synchronous or asynchronous) and provides, using machine learning techniques, generative models of how users behave. Additionally, these models are transformed into a text that describes in natural language the main characteristics of the interaction of the users with the system.

Keywords: clustering; human–computer interaction; mobile interfaces; user modeling; weighted automaton.