Intelligent profiling by example

  • Authors:
  • Sybil Shearin;Henry Lieberman

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St., E15-305D, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St., E15-305D, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The Apt Decision agent learns user preferences in the domain of rental real estate by observing the user's critique of apartment features. Users provide a small number of criteria in the initial interaction, receive a display of sample apartments, and then react to any feature of any apartment independently, in any order. Users learn which features are important to them as they discover the details of specific apartments. The agent uses interactive learning techniques to build a profile of user preferences, which can then be saved and used in further retrievals. Because the user's actions in specifying preferences are also used by the agent to create a profile, the result is an agent that builds a profile without redundant or unnecessary effort on the user's part.