User Modeling

 

What is User Modeling?

User modeling is the subdivision of human–computer interaction (HCI) which describes the process of building up and modifying a conceptual understanding of the user. The main goal of user modeling is customization and adaptation of systems to the user's specific needs. The system needs to "say the 'right' thing at the 'right' time in the 'right' way [1].

A user model is a (data) structure that is used to capture certain characteristics about an individual user, and a user profile is the actual representation in a given user model. The process of obtaining the user profile is called user modeling [2].

What are some research resources as a starting point?

On top of the definitions regarding user modeling, depending on what kind of characteristics we are focusing on,  there has been many research going on in different domains such as social media and e-learning. 

In the following, we list some of the tutorials and surveys that might be a good starting point based on different kinds of characteristics and domains you might be interested in. If you find other surveys or tutorials that are interesting and important but missing from the list, you can leave a comment on that.

Surveys      

• [General] "A Survey on Representation Learning for User Modeling", Li, Sheng, and Handong Zhao, IJCAI, 2020. https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/2020/0695.pdf
• [Social Media] "Extracting, Mining and Predicting Users’ Interests from Social Media", Zarrinkalam et al. Foundations and Trends@ Information Retrieval, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1500000078
• [Social Media] "Social media-based user embedding: a literature review", Pan, Shimei, and Tao Ding, IJCAI, 2019. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00725.pdf
• [Social Media] "Social Profiling: A Review, Taxonomy, and Challenges", Bilal et al. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2018.0670
• [General] "A Survey of User Profiling: State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Solutions", Eke et al., IEEE Acess, 2019.  https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2944243
• [Social Media] "Inferring User Interests in Microblogging Social Networks: A Survey", Piao, Guangyuan; Breslin, John G. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI): 55, 2019. https://doi:10.1007/s11257-018-9207-8
• [e-Learning] "Learner modelling: systematic review of the literature from the last 5 years", Abyaa, Abir et al., Educational Technology Research and Development, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-018-09644-1
• [Social Media] "Emerging trends in personality identification using online social networks—a literature survey", Kaushal, Vishal, and Manasi Patwardhan, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) 12.2 (2018): 1-30, https://doi.org/10.1145/3070645 
• [Social Media] "360◦ User Profiling: Past, Future, and Applications", Farseev et al. ACM SIGWEB Letter, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1145/2956573.2956577
• [General] "User profiling-a short review", Cufoglu, Ayse, International Journal of Computer Applications, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5120/18888-0179
• [Social Media] "A survey of user modelling in social media websites", Abdel-Hafez, Ahmad & Xu, Yue, Computer and Information Science, 2013. https://doi.org/10.5539/cis.v6n4p59
• [General] "Survey of Data Mining Approaches to User Modeling for Adaptive Hypermedia", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C (Applications and Reviews), Frias-Martinez, E., Chen, S. Y., & Liu, X., 2006. 10.1109/TSMCC.2006.879391
• [General] "User Modeling: Recent Work, Prospects and Hazards", Alfred Kobsa, Human Factors in Information Technology, 1993. https://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/papers/1993-aui-kobsa.pdf

Tutorials

• [Social Media] "User Interest Mining from Social Media", IJCAI 2020.
• [Social Media] "User Interest Mining from Social Media", CIKM 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3340531.3412167
• [Social Media] "Social User Interest Mining: Methods and Applications", KDD 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3292500.3332279
• [Social Media] "Extracting, Mining and Predicting Users’ Interests from Social Networks", SIGIR 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3331184.3331383
• [Social Media] "Semantics-aware Techniques for Social Media Analysis, User Modeling and Recommender Systems", UMAP 2016. [slides]
• [General] "User Modeling in Telecommunications and Internet Industry", KDD 2015. [video]

References

1. Fischer, Gerhard (2001), "User Modeling in Human-Computer Interaction": Fischer, Gerhard (2001), "User Modeling in Human-Computer Interaction", User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 11: 65–86. doi:10.1023/A:1011145532042 ↩︎
   
2. Piao, Guangyuan; Breslin, John G. (2018). "Inferring User Interests in Microblogging Social Networks: A Survey". User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI): 55. arXiv:1712.07691. doi:10.1007/s11257-018-9207-8↩︎
   

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