If this issue does nothing else, it should convince you that personalization means something different to anyone who uses it, creates it, designs tools around it, even…
August 2000 - Vol. 43 No. 8
Features
A human-image animation system that manipulates stored images of a person’s facial movements in response to phonemes (the smallest units of speech) and can then…
Legally Speaking: the Economic Espionage Act: Touring the Minefields
In order to protect homegrown secrets from foreign competitors, the U.S. Congress concocted the EEA, a cause of broad concern on the domestic front.
The Business of Software: the Case For a New Business Model
Is software a product or a medium?
On Site: Does Typography Affect Proposal Assessment?
Experience from assisting in the review of 30 proposals to a major funding agency suggests that mundane aspects of proposal formatting have an effect on proposal…
Introduction: Personalized Views of Personalization
Our vocabulary of Internet-related words has become socially popular and, of course, an essential tool of trade in the hands of marketing initiatives. I recall in the…
Finance with a Personalized Touch
The banking industry has sure benefited from new technologies, but how can we ensure customer satisfaction?
Growth in Personalization and Business
The mass production age does not deter increases in personalizing goods, services, and delivery that build customer satisfaction and loyalty. Business growth with a…
Experience with Personalization of Yahoo!
When designing Web personalization products, make sure you address all your users.
Personalized Communication Networks
What does personalization mean to AT&T and what are the important business propositions to provide personalized services to its customers? Guest Editor Doug Riecken…
A User-Centered Design Approach to Personalization
The key to successful design is grounding the choice of features and tools upon value to the end user.
Affordances, Motivation, and the Design of -User Interfaces
Creating tools that enable rather than restrict add value to the product and loyalty from the customer.
E-business intelligence is a complex, yet vital, element to building a strong customer base.
Helping People Find What They Don’t Know
Recommendation systems help users find the correct words for a successful search.
Creativity Enhancement with Emerging Technologies
For the creative person, the ability to determine how the creative process evolves is of critical importance.
To build a machine that truly learns by itself will require a commonsense knowledge representing the kinds of things even a small child already knows.
Tracing the road from data to phenomena—using a supermarket environ as the backdrop—illustrates the essence of data mining with commonsense knowledge.
Issues of representation pose many questions—and challenges—that must be solved before implementation.
Does personalization jeopardize our privacy? If so, what should the law do about it?
"If we perceive our role aright, we then see more clearly the proper criterion for success: a toolmaker succeeds as, and only as, the users of his tool succeed with…
Building Personal Tools By Programming
The Stagecast Creator can make a programmer out of every user.
Intermediaries Personalize Information Streams
A software-based middleman transforms data between client and server for faster delivery and discovery.
Recognizing patterns of behavior helps systems predict your next move.
A Personalized Television Listings Service
Mixing the collaborative recommendation approach with content-based filtering seems to bring out the best in both methods.
Capturing Human Intelligence in the Net
A new software system allows Web searchers to connect with others who have been there, done that.
Natural Language Dialogue For Personalized Interaction
Technologies that successfully recognize and react to spoken or typed words are key to true personalization. Front- and back-end systems must respond in accord, and one…
Personalization on the Net -Using Web Mining: Introduction
On the Internet, we have experienced massive growth in systems that can personalize content delivered to individual users. The science behind personalization has…
A Broader Approach to Personalization
Establishing an architecture for providing automatically generated, machine processable, dynamic user profiles to Web servers while conforming to users' privacy…
Automatic Personalization Based on Web -Usage Mining
Web usage mining can help improve the scalability, accuracy, and flexibility of recommender systems.
Examining the potential use of automated adaptation to improve Web sites for visitors.
Inside Risks: Shrink-Wrapping Our Rights
Laws relating to computers, software, and the Internet are being proposed and passed at such a breathless rate that even those of us trying to follow them are having…
