Analyses of design activities indicate that conflicts detected at the solution level often originate in conflicts at the design intention level. We have extended previous computational critiquing approaches by helping designers to become aware of, understand, and resolve conflicts among design intentions. A perspective-based critiquing system allows designers to explicitly represent design inte...

Individualized feedback is an important factor in fostering effective learning. However, it is often not seen in schools because providing it places a significant additional workload on teachers. One way to solve this problem is to employ critiquing tools, which offer students individualized coaching and just-in-time learning opportunities. This paper describes the Java Critiquer, a critiquing ...

We consider example-critiquing systems that help people search for their most preferred item in a large catalog. We first analyze how such systems can help users in the framework of three existing example-critiquing approaches (RABBIT, Incremental-critiquing and ATA). Afterwards we consider the use of several novel types of explicit passive analysis to guide the users in their search when their...

We present an on-going work on the application of critiquing aids in a geographical visualization. Particularly, it has been oriented to the Web 2.0 environment with the goal of facilitating users to easily seek out information and make confident and accurate decisions among overwhelming social data. We concretely illustrate our novel ideas through a web-based interactive travel map, where reco...

Clinical decision support systems have been developed to help physicians to take clinical guidelines into account during consultations. The ASTI critiquing module is one such systems; it provides the physician with automatic criticisms when a drug prescription does not follow the guidelines. It was initially developed for hypertension and type 2 diabetes, but is designed to be generic enough fo...

Critiquing is a powerful style of feedback for case-based recommender systems. Instead of providing detailed feature values, users indicate a directional preference for a feature. For example, a user might ask for a ‘less expensive’ restaurant in a restaurant recommender; ‘less expensive’ is a critique over the price feature. The value of critiquing is that it is generally applicable over a wid...

Conversational recommender systems solicit feedback from users in order to objectively inform the recommendation process. Ideally the user is presented with suitable products/services as promptly, as possible. Efficiency is key, and normally, this is measured in terms of the session length (i.e., the number of recommendation cycles with the user). In this paper we argue that it is also importan...

OBJECTIVE Medical critiquing systems compare clinical actions performed by a physician with a predefined set of actions. In order to provide useful feedback, an important task is to find differences between the actual actions and a set of 'ideal' actions as described by a clinical guideline. In case differences exist, the critiquing system provides insight into the extent to which they are comp...

An important issue in critiquing approaches to product recommendation is how to avoid long and fruitless critiquing dialogues when none of the available products are acceptable to the user. We present a new approach called progressive critiquing in which the non-existence of a product that satisfies all the user's critiques triggers an explanation alerting the user to the possibility that none ...

Medical critiquing systems criticise clinical actions performed by a physician. In order to provide useful feedback, an important task is to find differences between the actual actions and a set of ‘ideal’ actions as described by a clinical guideline. In case differences exist, insight to which extent they are compatible is provided by the critiquing system. We propose a methodology for such cr...