Justin Matejka, Wei Li, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice
CommunityCommands: Command Recommendations for Software Applications
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology
2009
CommunityCommands: Command Recommendations for Software Applications (1:51 min.)
Abstract
We explore the use of modern recommender system technology to address the problem of learning software applications. Before describing our new command recommender system, we first define relevant design considerations. We then discuss a 3 month user study we conducted with professional users to evaluate our algorithms which generated customized recommendations for each user. Analysis shows that our item-based collaborative filtering algorithm generates 2.1 times as many good suggestions as existing techniques. In addition we present a prototype user inter-face to ambiently present command recommendations to users, which has received promising initial user feedback.
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