Summary: User Modelling for Live Help Systems: Initial Results
Johan Aberg, Nahid Shahmehri, Dennis Maciuszek
Department of Computer and Information Science
Link ˜
opings universitet, S­581 83 Link ˜
oping, Sweden
{johab,nahsh}@ida.liu.se
ABSTRACT
This paper explores the role of user modelling in live help
systems for e­commerce web sites. There are several poten­
tial benefits with user modelling in this context: 1) Human
assistants can use the personal information in the user mod­
els to provide the users with e#cient support tailored to
their personal needs; 2) Assistants can be more comfortable
in their supporting role; 3) Consultation resources can be
saved, and thus, financial savings can be made for the e­
commerce company. A user modelling approach has been
implemented and deployed in a real web environment as
part of a live help system. Following the deployment we
have analysed consultation dialogue logs and answers to a

Source: Aberg, Johan - Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköpings Universitet

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences