UNOBTRUSIVE ACQUSITION OF USER INFORMATION FOR E–COMMERCE APPLICATIONS

Oshadi Alahakoon, Seng Loke, Arkady Zaslavsky

2004

Abstract

E-commerce has become a common activity among many people. Although widely used, the interfaces which users communicate with e-commerce systems are still at an early stage of development in terms of intelligence and user-friendliness. Unobtrusiveness is recognized as one of the most important desired attributes of an intelligent and friendly interface. In this paper we describe our work on an information architecture to minimize obtrusiveness. A layered information architecture supported by a structured user profile model is described in the paper. As example scenario is presented to clarify the new architecture and the development of a cost model for measuring the level of obtrusiveness is discussed.

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in Harvard Style

Alahakoon O., Loke S. and Zaslavsky A. (2004). UNOBTRUSIVE ACQUSITION OF USER INFORMATION FOR E–COMMERCE APPLICATIONS . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 3-8. DOI: 10.5220/0002633400030008


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis04,
author={Oshadi Alahakoon and Seng Loke and Arkady Zaslavsky},
title={UNOBTRUSIVE ACQUSITION OF USER INFORMATION FOR E–COMMERCE APPLICATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={3-8},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002633400030008},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - UNOBTRUSIVE ACQUSITION OF USER INFORMATION FOR E–COMMERCE APPLICATIONS
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Alahakoon O.
AU - Loke S.
AU - Zaslavsky A.
PY - 2004
SP - 3
EP - 8
DO - 10.5220/0002633400030008