Second Workshop on Empirical Evaluation of Adaptive Systems

in conjunction with UM2003

Console, L., Gena, C. and Torre, I. (2003). Evaluation of an on-vehicle adaptive tourist service. In: Weibelzahl, S. and Paramythis, A. (eds.). Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Empirical Evaluation of Adaptive Systems, held at the 9th International Conference on User Modeling UM2003, Pittsburgh.

This paper describes methodology and results obtained in the evaluation of a system that provides personalized tourist information onboard cars. With a PC simulator, using a layered sampling strategy and strong statistic metrics to compare the system suggestions to the users answers, we analyzed several dimensions of adaptation (user preferences, context risk, etc.).