Social discovery tools: Cataloguing meets user convenience

Social Inclusion in Ambient Assisted Living Environments: Home Automation and Convenience Services for Elderly User

Traditionally, Ambient Assisted Living applications focus on health-related services, like the detection of emergency situations, long-term treatment of chronic diseases, or the prevention and earlydetection of illnesses. Over the last years, more and more projects started to extend these classical healthcare scenarios by designing applications that explicitly aim at increasing well-being and s...

Data Mining Meets Collocations Discovery

In this paper we discuss the problem of discovering interesting word sequences in the light of two traditions: sequential pattern mining (from data mining) and collocations discovery (from computational linguistics). Smadja (1993) defines a collocation as “a recurrent combination of words that cooccur more often than chance and that correspond to arbitrary word usages.” The notion of arbitrarin...

Knowledge Discovery meets Linked APIs

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) is a very wellestablished research eld with useful techniques that explore patterns and regularities in large relational, structured and unstructured datasets. Theoretical and practical development in this eld have led to useful and scalable solutions for the tasks of pattern mining, clustering, graph mining, and predictions. In this paper, we demonstra...

User Modeling Meets Usability Goals

It has long been recognized that systems based on user modeling and adaptivity are associated with a number of typical usability problems—which sometimes outweigh the benefits of adaptation. This talk will show that the anticipation and prevention of usability side effects should form an essential part of the iterative design of user-adaptive systems, just as the consideration of medical side e...

The Yuck Factor When Disgust Meets Discovery