This paper reports on the Furniture Design Critic. We propose a computational model of design critiquing using the program, which as a research tool helps us explain how to select critiquing methods in the consideration of critiquing conditions. Surveying the literature of architectural education, we have identified two dimensions from critiquing comments: (1) delivery types (interpretation, in...

Since the seminal work of Perry Miller about medical critiquing systems in the eighties, there has been remarkable little further research. We present a knowledge level analysis of the types of knowledge and reasoning strategies necessary for an diagnostic critiquing system in vague domains. Instead of building a critiquing system from scratch, we investigate how to enrich a knowledge-based dia...

Design critiquing systems are a type of intelligent user interface used to support human designers in decision making. This paper places design critics in the larger context of intelligent user interface approaches and surveys several critiquing systems. Each approach and system is evaluated with respect to a five-phase design improvement process. This paper concludes with a summary of the stat...

Expert critiquing systems were introduced to assist physicians in decision making, without forcing them to comply to a gold standard of care. Critiquing systems do this by providing critique on a physician’s decisions, rather than telling him/her exactly what to do. In order to perform this task, a critiquing system must have knowledge of the diagnosis and the treatment processes, and must be a...

Conversational recommender systems guide users through a product space, alternatively making concrete product suggestions and eliciting the user’s feedback. Critiquing is a common form of user feedback, where users provide limited feedback at the feature-level by constraining a feature’s value-space. For example, a user may request a cheaper product, thus critiquing the price feature. Usually, ...

Critiquing-based recommender systems offer users a conversational paradigm to provide their feedback, named critiques, during the process of viewing the current recommendation. In this way, the system is able to learn and adapt to the users’ preferences more precisely so that better recommendation could be returned in the subsequent iteration. Moreover, recent works on experience-based critiqui...

Design–oriented critiquing systems have successfully demonstrated their capability to aid users in designing artifacts. They can be seen as personal assistants helping to reflect on a particular design and to improve it. For doing so, design–oriented critiquing systems make knowledge and expertise of domain experts available to end users of authoring tools. Unfortunately, it is a quite demandin...

In recommender systems, critiquing has been popularly applied as an effective approach to obtaining users’ feedback on recommended products. In order to reduce users’ efforts of creating critiquing criteria on their own, some systems have aimed at suggesting critiques for users to choose. How to accurately match system-suggested critiques to users’ intended feedback hence becomes a challenging ...