Understanding Viewpoint Biases in Web Search Results

Influence of ChatGPT Expertise, Topical Expertise, and Topical Interest on User Behavior and Engagement in Informational Search Sessions in ChatGPT

ChatGPT, a cutting-edge technology based on LLM, demonstrated great potential in search tasks. While the importance and potential of ChatGPT are growing, the gap in the understanding of how users interact and engage in ChatGPT search remains open. Past research has extensively examined traditional information search, but there is a need for...

SAD: State machine-based Anomaly Detection in User Behavior

Over the past centuries, cybercrime has constantly grown. Among the most popular attacks against companies are phishing emails that especially gained popularity for threat actors to use as a tool during the COVID-19 pandemic. By changing the working environment, most communication channels between employees shifted from personal conversations...

Editorial: User Modeling and Recommendations

Materializing the Demand Response Potential from Heat Pumps in the Netherlands in 2050: Investigating the Role of Consumer Behavior

By the year 2050, the Dutch government aims to have transitioned away from natural gas and provide heating to all residential dwellings using more sustainable technologies. Heat pumps (both all-electric and hybrid models) are expected to play a large role in fulfilling this heating demand. However, because heat pumps require electricity in order...

Developing contemporary web-based interaction logging infrastructure: The design and challenges of LogUI

Studies involving user interfaces typically involve the capturing and recording (logging) of key user interactions between the user and the system being examined. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that researchers often implement their own logging infrastructure-sometimes in a piecemeal fashion-which can lead to numerous implementation...

How do user opinions influence their interaction with web search results?

Understanding the influence of users' opinions on their search behavior together with their inherent biases in web search has garnered widespread interest in recent times. This is largely due to the implications of promoting critical thinking, explaining phenomena such as political polarization, or the manifestation of echo chambers. It is...

Simulation of adaptive user behavior with respect to noises in offices

In recent time, there has been a rise in the number of coworking and activity-based working spaces. This increase has brought a high return to the real-estate developers but at the same time has compromised with occupant satisfaction. It brings an additional challenge for the architects and designer to look into the user-centred design for...

TaskGenie: Crowd-Powered Task Generation for Struggling Search

Search tasks provide a medium for the evaluation of system performance and the underlying analytical aspects of IR systems. Researchers have recently developed new interfaces or mechanisms to support vague information needs and struggling search. However, little attention has been paid to the generation of a unified task set for evaluation...

Understanding the role of IoT end users in Miria-Like bot remediation

Malicious software such as botnets are a threat to society and increasingly so through Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The large volume, pervasiveness and high vulnerability of IoT devices make them low hanging fruit for malicious actors. Currently, the biggest threat for insecure IoT devices is Mirai, a botnet which is deployed for DDoS...

When Game Becomes Life: The Creators and Spectators of Online Game Replays and Live Streaming

Online gaming franchises such as World of Tanks, Defense of the Ancients, and StarCraft have attracted hundreds of millions of users who, apart from playing the game, also socialize with each other through gaming and viewing gamecasts. As a form of User Generated Content (UGC), gamecasts play an important role in user entertainment and gamer...

Designing the Resource Clock - A consumer product for layered feedback on domestic resource consumption

This thesis shows the design process of the resource clock, a consumer product designed to provide households easily accessible feedback on their domestic resource consumption. This report describes the analysis of how domestic resource consumption, user behavior concerning resource consumption and feedback, can play a role in the process of...

User behaviors in private BitTorrent communities

Many private BitTorrent communities employ Sharing Ratio Enforcement<br/>(SRE) schemes to incentivize users to contribute. It has been demonstrated<br/>that users in private communities are highly dedicated and that they seed much<br/>longer than users in communities where SRE is not employed. While most pre-<br/>vious studies focus on showing...

Connecting Dwellers to Building Performance and Weather Data through Sustainable Automation Systems

The paper presents a prototype for a Home Automation and Information Systems (HAIS) applied to an existing dwelling, the Florianopolis House, with the potential to address building performance and user behavior towards a more sustainable way of living. Home information and automation systems based on a great variety of sensors, associated with...