Comments: Chris Kam, Derek Landini.
Reference Information:
Title: Personalized User Interfaces for Product Configuration
Authors: Alexander Felfernig, Monika Mandl, Juha Tiihonen, Monika Schubert, Gerhard Leitner.
Venue: IUI’10, February 7–10, 2010, Hong Kong, China.
Summary: In their paper, the authors discussed product configuration for software packages. The software packages they were configuring were sold to clients, who want to customize them to their specific needs before they implement it in their business. The authors designed an algorithm which looks at the features the user implements, and it suggests and automatically configures additional features. Their results were somewhat mixed, with some clients liking the customizations, others finding it cumbersome and hard to use. The authors admit that their research is in it's early stages.
Discussion: This paper was fairly interesting, but VERY technical. It's explanation of it's algorithms was highly technical, and not very easy to follow. The research as a whole was very interesting however.
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