Interactive recommender applications are an important technology for online retailers who want to increase their sales by providing potential buyers with suitable recommendations. Critique-based navigation, where a user applies a directional critique to a specific feature of a presented recommendation, is often used to guide users through such complex product spaces. Dynamic critiquing is a nov...

Critiquing Effective Decision Support in Time Critical Domains Abigail S Gertner Bonnie L Webber Supervisor The TraumAID system is a tool for assisting physicians during the initial de nitive management phase of patients with severe injuries Originally TraumAID was conceived as a rule based expert system combined with a planner After this architecture had been implemented and evaluated we began...

We consider interactive tools that help users search for their most preferred item in a large collection of options. In particular, we examine example-critiquing, a technique for enabling users to incrementally construct preference models by critiquing example options that are presented to them. We present novel techniques for improving the example-critiquing technology by adding suggestions to...

Critiquing is a powerful form of feedback often used by conversational recommender systems. There are two main types of critiquing; unit and compound. Unit critiques allow the user to provide limited feedback at the feature-level by constraining a single feature’s value space. Compound critiques, on the other hand, allow the user to manipulate multiple features simultaneously and therefore can ...

This paper investigates the combination of expert critiquing systems and formal medical protocols. Medical protocols might serve as a suitable basis for an expert critiquing system because of the ongoing acceptance of medical protocols and the rise of both evidence-based practice and evidence-based protocols. A prerequisite for a critiquing system based on medical protocols is the ability to ma...

Ž . This paper proposes a framework for a decision support system DSS based on critique and argumentation. We make a distinction between positive and negative types of critique and argue that both of them are valuable in making substantiated decisions. We further propose use of debate and argumentation as means for more informative decision support. We discuss the types of knowledge used for cr...

A major challenge facing the developers of intelligent decision-support systems is how to present pertinent information to physicians in such a way that it will be effective in influencing their behavior. The successful integration of medical decision-support systems into clinical environments has been a widely reported problem ever since such systems began to appear. While recognizing these sy...