Eliciting user preferences through a guided design personalization process

  • Authors:

  • Maciej A. Orzechowski;Bauke de Vries

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Mechanical Aerospace and Civil Engineering, The University of Manchester, Pariser Building Room P/B29, P.O. Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK;Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In building industry, sound methods are needed to determine the design options that respond to the requirements of the potential house buyers. A new method is presented that consists of two main concepts: a user centred design approach through a non-designers interface and Bayesian networks for learning the housing preferences and responding to design choices. In a design session, the network is used to collect data about the housing preferences and to check for design inconsistencies. An experiment with the system in a housing project shows how the subjects responded to the system feedback on their design decisions.