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SUMMARY:Tell Me Where You’ve Lived and What You Want -- I’ll Tell You 
 What You Like and Need - Abraham Bernstein\, University of Zurich
DTSTART:20120830T130000Z
DTEND:20120830T140000Z
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:Intelligent Assistants --- systems that intelligently help peo
 ple to address some issue --- have been the subject of much AI research. I
 n this talk I will introduce two such systems.\n\nThe first assistant focu
 ses on adapting user interfaces to cultural preferences -- a task that has
  been shown to improve a user’s performance\, but is oftentimes foregone
  because of its time-consuming and costly procedure. We introduce our cult
 urally adaptive web application MOCCA\, which is able to map information i
 n a cultural user model onto adaptation rules in order to create personali
 zed UIs. We describe how MOCCA achieves its goal and present two empirical
  studies that MOCCA predicts the user's desires on an optimal user interfa
 ce correctly and the generated user interface increases the user's satisfa
 ction as well as performance when solving a task.  \n\nThe second assistan
 t helps people in the analysis of datasets. These are often overwhelmed by
  the large number of operators that are available for pre-proessing\, appl
 ying a data-mining algorithm\, and postprocessing the mining results resul
 ting in a huge design space for possible solutions. Extending notions deve
 loped for statistical expert systems we present a prototype Intelligent Di
 scovery Assistant (IDA)\, which provides users with (i) systematic enumera
 tions of valid DM processes\, in order that important\, potentially fruitf
 ul options are not overlooked\, and (ii) effective rankings of these valid
  processes by different criteria\, to facilitate the choice of DM processe
 s to execute.
LOCATION:Small public lecture room\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomso
 n Avenue (Off Madingley Road)\, Cambridge
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