The field of intelligent user interfaces has received great attention from the research community in the last few years with the explosion of new applications and services designed to be executed in a dynamic and continuously changing environment and aligned to the demands and preferences of the users.

Intelligent User Interfaces: Adaptation and Personalization Systems and Technologies innovatively combines broad research areas in intelligent user interfaces to provide an authoritative, comprehensive review of recent studies, state-of-the-art applications, and new methodologies and theories that support the issue of adaptation and personalization in various application levels."

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Adaptive Behavior
Adaptive hypermedia environments
Adaptive information access
Adaptive learning environments
Advanced middleware architecture
Augmented cognition
Dynamic video content
E-learning tools
Intelligent information personalization
Learner modeling
Media streams
Ontology-based personalization
Open learner modeling
Parallel storage servers
Personalization techniques
Personalized adaptation
Personalized leading-edge services
Portal quality measurement in e-government
Privacy-enhanced personalization
Semantic knowledge
Semantically adaptive interface
Visualization method selection
Web Usage Mining
Web-based instruction"

Reviews & Statements

This book covers a large number of topics in the area of adaptation and personalization of the content, processing and communication. It provides pragmatic references, analysis, new methodologies, and architectures that tend to approach the subject more comprehensively providing latest suggestions and solutions.

– Constantinos Mourlas, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Exploring the adaptivity of information communication technologies, seventeen papers share research on theoretical aspects of adaptive and personalized user interfaces, adaptive content and services, adaptive processing and communication, and applications with adaptive behavior.

– Book News Inc. (Decemeber 2008)

In Intelligent User Interfaces: Adaptation and Personalization Systems and Technologies, IGI has done their usual excellent job of collecting expert opinions from faculty and scientists around the world on topics of current interest in IT and computer science. But, by offering an implementation-oriented review of the technologies available for Web customization, personalization and recommendation, they have provided invaluable input on one of the hottest topics in both computer science and commercial information technology. This volume collects practical examples of semantic Web techniques, data mining for recommendation engines, personalization to a Web user's affect and cognition, practical methods to customize e-learning and intelligent tutoring systems, and to tune Web interfaces for mobile devices.

– Ira Laefsky, Independent Consultant and HCI Researcher, USA

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Editor/Author Biographies

Constantinos Mourlas is assistant professor in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), Department of Communication and Media Studies since 2002. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Informatics, University of Athens in 1995 and graduated from the University of Crete in 1988 with a Diploma in Computer Science. In 1998 was an ERCIM fellow for post-doctoral studies through research in STFC, UK. He was employed as Lecturer at the Univeristy of Cyprus, Department of Computer Science from 1999 till 2002. His previous research work focused on distributed multimedia systems with adaptive behaviour, Quality of Service issues, streaming media and the Internet. His current main research interest is in the design and the development of intelligent environments that provide adaptive and personalized context to the users according to their preferences, cognitive characteristics and emotional state. He has several publications including edited books, chapters, articles in journals and conference contributions. Dr. C. Mourlas has taught various undergraduate as well as postgraduate courses in the Dept. of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus and the Dept. of Communication and Media Studies of the University of Athens. Furthermore, he has coordinated and activelly participated in numerous national and EU funded projects.

Panagiotis Germanakos, PhD, is a Research Scientist, in the Laboratory of New Technologies, Faculty of Communication & Media Studies, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and of the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus. He obtained his PhD from the University of Athens in 2008 and his MSc in International Marketing Management from the Leeds University Business School in 1999. His B.Sc. was in Computer Science and also holds a HND Diploma of Technician Engineer in the field of Computer Studies. His research interest is in Web Adaptation and Personalization Environments and Systems based on user profiling/filters encompassing amongst others visual, mental and affective processes, implemented on desktop and mobile / wireless platforms. He has several publications, including co-edited books, chapters, articles in journals, and conference contributions. Furthermore, he actively participates in numerous national and EU funded projects that mainly focus on the analysis, design and development of open interoperable integrated wireless/mobile and personalized technological infrastructures and systems in the ICT research areas of e-Government, e-Health and e-Learning and has an extensive experience in the provision of consultancy of large-scaled IT solutions and implementations in the business sector.

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