Research Statement - Paolo Viappiani

Personalization can help people to better deal with the complexities of choices in their lives. Personalized preference-aware interactive systems are in great demand in many domains: for instance, ambient intelligence systems can make our homes more secure, comfortable and better organized, cognitive assistants help the elderly in their daily activities, tutoring systems facilitate learning, adaptive hypermedia alter their content according to the user. The interest in personalization is evident the most in the web, where in recent years there has been a surge in research on personalized recommender systems; these systems include information search, music and shopping recommendation and personalized newspapers.