David Bueno Vallejo

• Ph D. Computer Science
• Professor (Associate) at University of Malaga

Engineering degree students sometimes feel that programming courses are not particularly relevant to their main subject and consequently are unmotivated and underperform. In view of this fact therefore, we have realized that in order to motivate them, programming practices must be related to other areas of their degree, in accordance with some prin...

The authors present a possible approach for a new general purpose recommender architecture, one which complements the current proven and tested techniques (User Model, Collaborative Filtering, Content Based Filtering), used in some everyday business scenarios, balancing with newly developed personalization procedures and methodologies. The overall...

This paper explains SAMO, an educational game for Spanish orthography. The game is an evolution of MITO, which was evaluated with real students. Using information obtained from this evaluation, which highlighted some shortcomings from the pedagogical and access point of view, a new game has been developed, using a new architecture, with a new teach...

This paper presents the methods used in a TV Recommender System that helps users in the difficult task of finding an interesting TV program from among the hundreds of channels that we can find nowadays on TV. Our aim is to cover not only user preferences but also user restrictions while watching TV. The recommendations use a hybrid method, combini...

In order to support the demands of fast and precise TV categorization for a personalized Electronic Programming Guide (EPG), the authors propose a new multidimensional taxonomy for the TV content. In addition to being much more lightweight in nature than the approach proposed by TV Anytime, with this method, a much more streamlined format is genera...

Nowadays most universities use different distance learning environments. However in the educational process besides forums, chats and other collaborative possibilities the content of the subject matter to be taught is normally done using static file formats. Specific Learning games can improve the student experience by enhancing motivation and inte...

The current Information Retrieval Systems return hundreds or thousands of documents in response to a query. Users consider only the first 20 or 30, but documents are often sorted according to the query and the results are perhaps not relevant to the users’ needs. This situation is even more problematic when non expert users have difficulties in exp...

An educational game is a recreational activity designed to teach people (typically children) about a certain subject, or to help them learn a skill as they play. These games are usually successful in capturing pupils’ interest but sometimes fail to trigger learning. This paper briefly explains MITO, an educational game to teach Spanish orthography....

Los sistemas de recuperación de información surgen de la necesidad del hombre de organizar la información contenida en bibliotecas para poder localizar todos los documentos contenidos en ellas. En la actualidad todo el que se conecta a la Web está en contacto con sistemas como Altavista, Google o Yahoo. El problema de estos buscadores es que a vece...

This paper presents a framework for the integration of web-based educational systems. It is part of a research project, MEDEA1, whose final goal is to develop a general framework to build open Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). We understand. open system. as a set of autonomous educational modules which communicate between themselves, following hi...

TEA was originally conceived as a Computer Aided Educational System for teaching Agrarian Economy. This system was composed by web pages of instructional contents and web pages of test questions. The biggest flaw of the system is the lack of control over the pages seen by the student. This contributed to the disorientation of students during the in...

Most of the information of the WWW is not adaptive, rather it is dispersed and disorganized. Another difficulty is to find tools that help to create adaptive courses. SIGUE is an author tool that makes it possible to build adaptive courses using web pages that already exist. This means that if there is a lot of information on the web about the same...

The Web is one of the most powerful sources of information on any topic. However looking for scientific literature is a difficult task. Prior knowledge of link sites is necessary and if you are lucky they point to conferences proceedings available on-line. In fact the case the user is not able to make queries about the available documents and must...

The idea of personalizing the interactions of a system is not new.

TEA was originally conceived as a Computer Aided Educational System for teaching Agrarian Economy. This system was composed by web pages of instructional contents and web pages of test questions. One of the main lacks of this system was that there is not any control over the navigation process of the students through the pages. This contributed to...

The idea of personalizing the interactions of a system is not new. With stereotypes the users are grouped into classes where all the users in a class have similar characteristics. Personalization was therefore not on individual basis but on a group of users. Personalized systems are also used in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) and in information...

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The size of Internet has been growing very fast and many documents appear every day in the Net. Users find many problems to obtain the information that they really need. In order to help users in this task of finding relevant information, recommending systems were proposed. They give advice using two methods: the content-based method that extracts...

Colloque avec actes et comité de lecture. internationale.

Our hypothesis is that when a user employs an IRS, he or she has an objective to achieve. This objective concerns the user's information need. In order to achieve this objective, the user generally does some activities using the IRS. The IRS proposes to the user solutions in response to the queries formulated by the user. The main task of an IRS is...

Colloque avec actes et comité de lecture.

The main objective of an information retrieval system (IRS) is to provide relevant information in response to the user's query. On the one part, the relevance of a response concerns its exactness compared with the user's query. On the other part, it concerns its correspondence with the user's knowledge level and his preferences. One of the major co...

Colloque avec actes et comité de lecture. internationale.

Resumen El desarrollo de Sistemas Tutoriales Inteligentes (STI) requiere, durante la fase de modelado de la base de conocimientos del dominio, el trabajo de expertos en la materia que se está modelando. A veces los expertos encargados de aportar el conocimiento y los ingenieros del conocimiento dedicados a la adquisición de éste no coinciden en el...

Resumen Hay dos áreas que pueden relacionarse para obtener resultados interesantes. Por una lado, está la investigación sobre el desarrollo de Sistemas Tutoriales (TS) [POLSON 88]. Por otro, la WWW, plataforma multimedia de hipertexto, que cada día está extendiéndose más. Actualmente, mucha gente en el mundo entero esta conectado a este medio, lo q...