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Designing For Positive Health Affect: Decoupling Negative Emotion And Health Monitoring Technologies, Tammy R. Toscos, Kay Connelly, Yvonne Rogers
Designing For Positive Health Affect: Decoupling Negative Emotion And Health Monitoring Technologies, Tammy R. Toscos, Kay Connelly, Yvonne Rogers
Tammy R Toscos
Through various health-focused technology projects, we discovered that the emotional response to technology was related to uptake and sustained use of health monitoring technologies. In this paper we present a case study of how we synthesized constructs of social cognitive theory, technology as experience, and diabetes management guidelines as a framework for making design recommendations for blood glucose monitoring technology that address the emotional response of users. We suggest applying this theoretical lens for design may help attend to emotional responses of users in an effort to decouple strong negative emotions that are paired to health monitoring technologies that provide …
Web Mining For Web Personalization, Magdalini Eirinaki, Michalis Vazirgiannis
Web Mining For Web Personalization, Magdalini Eirinaki, Michalis Vazirgiannis
Magdalini Eirinaki
Web personalization is the process of customizing a Web site to the needs of specific users, taking advantage of the knowledge acquired from the analysis of the user's navigational behavior (usage data) in correlation with other information collected in the Web context, namely, structure, content, and user profile data. Due to the explosive growth of the Web, the domain of Web personalization has gained great momentum both in the research and commercial areas. In this article we present a survey of the use of Web mining for Web personalization. More specifically, we introduce the modules that comprise a Web personalization …