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User Models: A Contribution to Pragmatics of Web Information Systems Design

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On a high level of abstraction a Web Information System (WIS) can be described by a storyboard, which in an abstract way specifies who will be using the system, in which way and for which goals. While syntax and semantics of storyboarding has been well explored, its pragmatics has not. A first step towards pragmatics of storyboards is the observation and documentation of life cases in reality. These, however, have to be complemented by user models. This paper presents an approach to capture user models and to specify the various facets of actor profiles that are needed for them. We analyse actor profiles and present a semi-formal way for their documentation. We outline how these profiles can be used to specify actors, which are an important component of a storyboard.

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  1. Information Science Research Centre, Massey University, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Klaus-Dieter Schewe

  2. Department of Computer Science, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24098, Kiel, Germany

    Bernhard Thalheim

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  1. School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Karl Aberer

  2. State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, 430072, wuhan, China

    Zhiyong Peng

  3. Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

    Elke A. Rundensteiner

  4. Victoria University, Australia

    Yanchun Zhang

  5. Wuhan University, China

    Xuhui Li

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Schewe, KD., Thalheim, B. (2006). User Models: A Contribution to Pragmatics of Web Information Systems Design. In: Aberer, K., Peng, Z., Rundensteiner, E.A., Zhang, Y., Li, X. (eds) Web Information Systems – WISE 2006. WISE 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4255. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11912873_53

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