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Vikram Aggarwal

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Publication statistics

Pub. period:2004-2007
Pub. count:4
Number of co-authors:5

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Michelle X. Zhou:4
Zhen Wen:3
James Shaw:1

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Vikram Aggarwal's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Michelle X. Zhou:24
Zhen Wen:14
Shimei Pan:9

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Publications by Vikram Aggarwal (bibliography)

2007

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Wen, Zhen, Zhou, Michelle X. and Aggarwal, Vikram (2007): Context-Aware, adaptive information retrieval for investigative tasks. In: Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2007. pp. 122-131.

“We are building an intelligent information system to aid users in their investigative tasks, such as detecting fraud. In such a task, users must progressively search and analyze relevant information before drawing a conclusion. In this paper, we address how to help users find relevant information during an investigation. Specifically, we present a novel approach that can improve information retrieval by exploiting a user's investigative context. Compared to existing retrieval systems, which are either context insensitive or leverage only limited user context, our work offers two unique contributions. First, our system works with users cooperatively to build an investigative context, which is otherwise very difficult to capture by machine or human alone. Second, we develop a context-aware method that can adaptively retrieve and evaluate information relevant to an ongoing investigation. Experiments show that our approach can improve the relevance of retrieved information significantly. As a result, users can fulfill their investigative tasks more efficiently and effectively.”

2006

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Zhou, Michelle X., Houck, Keith, Pan, Shimei, Shaw, James, Aggarwal, Vikram and Wen, Zhen (2006): Enabling context-sensitive information seeking. In: Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2006. pp. 116-123.

“Information seeking is an important but often difficult task, especially when it involves large and complex data sets. We hypothesize that a context-sensitive interaction paradigm would greatly assist users in their information seeking. Such a paradigm would allow users to both express their requests and receive requested information in context. Driven by this hypothesis, we have taken rigorous steps to design, develop, and evaluate a full-fledged, context-sensitive information system. We started with a Wizard-of-OZ (WOZ) study to verify the effectiveness of our envisioned system. We then built a fully automated system based on the findings from our WOZ study. We targeted the development and integration of two sets of technologies: context-sensitive multimodal input interpretation and multimedia output generation. Finally, we formally evaluated the usability of our system in real world conditions. The results show that our system greatly improves the users' ability to perform practical information-seeking tasks. These results not only confirm our initial hypothesis, but they also indicate the practicality of our approaches.”

2005

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Wen, Zhen, Zhou, Michelle X. and Aggarwal, Vikram (2005): An Optimization-based Approach to Dynamic Visual Context Management. In: InfoVis 2005 - IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 23-25 October, 2005, Minneapolis, MN, USA. p. 25.

2004

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Zhou, Michelle X. and Aggarwal, Vikram (2004): An optimization-based approach to dynamic data content selection in intelligent multimedia interfaces. In: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2004. pp. 227-236.

“We are building a multimedia conversation system to facilitate information seeking in large and complex data spaces. To provide tailored responses to diverse user queries introduced during a conversation, we automate the generation of a system response. Here we focus on the problem of determining the data content of a response. Specifically, we develop an optimization-based approach to content selection. Compared to existing rule-based or plan-based approaches, our work offers three unique contributions. First, our approach provides a general framework that effectively addresses content selection for various interaction situations by balancing a comprehensive set of constraints (e.g., content quality and quantity constraints). Second, our method is easily extensible, since it uses feature-based metrics to systematically model selection constraints. Third, our method improves selection results by incorporating content organization and media allocation effects, which otherwise are treated separately. Preliminary studies show that our method can handle most of the user situations identified in a Wizard-of-Oz study, and achieves results similar to those produced by human designers.”

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