Dipartimento di Informatica

Abstract The MuMoWOz (MultiModal Wizard of Oz) tool presented in this paper permits to conduct Wizard of Oz user studies. The significant features of MuMoWOz are the possibility to easily adapt it to new simulation scenarios and an architecture that allows HCI researchers to perform studies in mobile multimodal settings. The simulation of two scenarios related to cultural heritage domain is reported.

Mass customization refers to the increase in variety and customization of the manufactured products and services. It is now economically feasible thanks to the availability of computer-aided manufacturing systems, which allow people to customize standard products, and to Internet, through which many online retailers now operate, thus eliminating the constraints of physical shelf space and other bottlenecks of distribution that, in past years, prevented the production of niche products because of their high production costs.

ABSTRACT In the Information Society, end-users keep increasing very fast in number, as well as in their demand with respect to the activities they would like to perform with computer environments, without being obliged to become computer specialists. There is a strong request of providing end-users with powerful and flexible environments, tailorable to the culture, skills and needs of very diverse end-user population.

Web-based applications with a large variety of users suffer from the inability to satisfy heterogeneous needs. Systems should be capable of adapting their behavior to the user's characteristics, such as goals, tasks, interests, which are stored in user profiles. Filtering techniques are used to analyse profile data and provide recommendation to the users to help them navigating in the site and retrieving information of interest.

In our Age of exponential technological advance, recent developments are determining an evolution of end users from passive information consumers into information producers. Users are increasingly willing and, indeed, determined to shape the software they use to tailor it to their own needs.

Abstract M-learning the combination of e-learn-ling with mobile technologies captures the very nature of e-learning by providing users with independence from the constraints of time and location. 1 To exploit the potential of mobile technologies for learning, researchers must define new teaching and learning techniques. 2 The Explore! m-learning system implements an excursion-game technique to help middle school students (ages 11 through 13) acquire historic knowledge while playing in an archaeological park.

Abstract Interaction design of mobile systems is a complex activity because it requires considering new usability and user experience aspects in order to exploit the peculiar characteristics of mobile devices, such as their pervasive and ubiquitous nature. This paper discusses issues about designing, developing and evaluating mobile systems.