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Interaction design guidelines on critiquing-based recommender systems

Chen, Li ; Pu, Pearl

In: User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2009, vol. 19, no. 3, p. 167-206

Università della Svizzera italiana

Mastering the semiotics of information-intensive web interfaces

Speroni, Marco ; Paolini, Paolo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2006 ; 2006COM002.

Communication is virtually impossible when interlocutors lack the ability to negotiate meanings. The intended semantics of the language used by a sender should be perceived and mastered by its receiver/s. For this reason the sender should always vision and identify himself in the receiver in order to design the most clear and proper signs with respect to her/his knowledge. Web sites are complex...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Development-oriented elearning tool evaluation : the Edukalibre approach

Botturi, Luca ; Dimitrova, Vania ; Matravers, Julika ; Tebb, Chris ; Withworth, Drew ; Geldermann, Jutta ; Hubert, Isabelle

In: Proceedings of EDMEDIA 2005, Montreal, Canada, 2005, vol. 1, p. 1104

The Edukalibre development approach described here offers libre educational tools based on open development model. The paper presents a development-oriented evaluation approach comprising three phases. Phase 1 focused on rapid and distributed usability inspections producing development-oriented feedback for designers, and was built around a usability inspection framework. Phase 2 was conducted...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Mastering the requirements analysis for communication-intensive websites = Gestione dell'analisi dei requisiti per la comunicazione su web

Bolchini, Davide ; Paolini, Paolo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2003.

Web application development still needs to employ effective methods to accommodate some distinctive aspects of the requirements analysis process: capturing high-level communication goals, considering several user profiles and stakeholders, defining hypermedia-specific requirements (concerning navigation, content, information structure and presentation aspects), and reusing requirements for an...