Interactive User Modeling for Personalized Access to Museum Collections: The Rijksmuseum Case Study

  • Authors:
  • Yiwen Wang;Lora M. Aroyo;Natalia Stash;Lloyd Rutledge

  • Affiliations:
  • Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands;Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3 Telematica Institute, Enschede, The Netherlands, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands;Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3 Telematica Institute, Enschede, The Netherlands, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • UM '07 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on User Modeling
  • Year:
  • 2007

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In this paper we present an approach for personalized access to museum collections. We use a RDF/OWL specification of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam collections as a driver for an interactive dialog. The user gives his/her judgment on the artefacts, indicating likes or dislikes. The elicited user model is further used for generating recommendations of artefacts and topics. In this way we support exploration and discovery of information in museum collections. A user study provided insights in characteristics of our target user group, and showed how novice and expert users employ their background knowledge and implicit interest in order to elicit their art preference in the museum collections.