Modeling of user interest based on its interaction with a collaborative knowledge management system

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02580-8_36Proceedings of 13th International Conference, HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009, Part IIISKC is a prototype system for knowledge management in the Web by means of semantic information without supervision and tries to select the knowledge contained in the system by paying attention to its use. This paper explains user activity analysis in order to find out their interest for knowledge elements in the system, and the application of this interest for users classification and knowledge identification for their interest, inside and outside SKC. As a result a model for user interest based on interaction is obtained.This research has been partially financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, through TIN2007-64718 and TIN2008-02081/TIN projects, and by the Spanish Agency for the International Cooperation (AECI) through A/7954/07 project

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