Technology enhanced learning (TEL) aims to design, develop and test socio-technical
innovations that will support and enhance learning practices of both individuals and …

The evaluation of interactive adaptive systems has long been acknowledged to be a
complicated and demanding endeavour. Some promising approaches in the recent past …

Adaptive systems are usually interactive systems. As such they stand to benefit considerably
from a development lifecycle that ensures user involvement from the early design stages …

This article presents an affective-based sensemaking system for grou** and suggesting
stories created by the users about the cultural artefacts in a museum. By relying on the TCL …

In this article, we describe a hybrid recommender system (RS) in the artistic and cultural
heritage area, which takes into account the activities on social media performed by the target …

This is an introduction to multicast routing, which is the study of methods for routing from one
source to many destinations, or from many sources to many destinations. Multicast is …

A user-centred design approach involves end-users from the very beginning. Considering
users at the early stages compels designers to think in terms of utility and usability and helps …

Intelligent adaptation is a key issue for the design of flexible support systems for mobile
users. In this paper we present UbiquiTO, a tourist guide which integrates different forms of …

This article presents a comprehensive overview of methods and techniques used for the
evaluation of user-adaptive systems. It describes the methodologies derived both from the …

With the growing popularity of microblogging services such as Twitter in recent years, an
increasing number of users are using these services in their daily lives. The huge volume of …