Critiquing techniques provide an easy way for users to feedback their preferences over one or several attributes of the products in a conversational recommender system. While unit critiques only allow users to critique one attribute of the products each time, a well-generated set of compound critiques enables users to input their preferences on several attributes at the same time, and can poten...

Nowadays travel and tourism Web sites store and offer a large volume of travel related information and services. Furthermore, this huge amount of information can be easily accessed using mobile devices, such as a phone with mobile Internet connection capability. However, this information can easily overwhelm a user because of the large number of information items to be shown and the limited scr...

Conversational recommenders can help users find their most preferred item among a large range of options, a task that we call preference-based search. Motivated by studies in the field of behavioral decision theory, we take a user centric design perspective, focusing on the trade-off between decision accuracy and user effort. We consider example-critiquing, a methodology based on showing exampl...

Abstract Some scholars assume that the content and validity of international legal norms turns upon existence convergent attitudes behaviors state representatives other ‘international officials’. By converging criteria for what counts as a ‘formal source’ law does not, such officials provide ‘rule recognition’ in relation to which normative system is determined. In this Article I present two th...

In this paper, I examine the theoretical foundations of esports anti-doping policies. Specifically, focus on health- and integrity-related arguments which organizations rely to justify their efforts how relate organizations’ partnership with energy-drink companies. First, briefly explain creation development policies in esports. Subsequently, identify such Then, expound commercial between indus...

Since the mid-1980s, psychologists and neuroscientists have used brain imaging to test hypotheses about human thought processes and their neural instantiation. In just three decades, functional neuroimaging has been transformed from a crude clinical tool to a widely used research method for understanding the human brain and mind. Such rapidly achieved success is bound to evoke skepticism. A deg...

Yeonjoo Oh, Samsung C&T Corporation, 1321-20 Seocho2-Dong, Seocho-Gu, Seoul 137-956, South Korea Suguru Ishizaki, Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Mark D. Gross, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Ellen Yi-Luen Do, School of Industrial Design and School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technolog...