Service-Aware Interactive Presentation of Items for Decision-Making
Current information exploration models present low-level features or technical aspects related to the paradigm used to generate results. While this may increase transparency, it does not help the user form a personal opinion about items because it does not describe the overall experience with them....
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| author | Noemi Mauro Liliana Ardissono Sara Capecchi Rosario Galioto |
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| description | Current information exploration models present low-level features or technical aspects related to the paradigm used to generate results. While this may increase transparency, it does not help the user form a personal opinion about items because it does not describe the overall experience with them. In order to address this issue, we propose the INTERactivE viSualizaTion model (INTEREST) that supports the exploration and analysis of search results by means of a graphical representation of consumer feedback aimed at making the user aware of the service properties in all the stages of fruition, focusing on the data that is most relevant to her/him. INTEREST is based on the Service Journey Maps for the design and description of user experience with services. We applied it to the home booking domain by developing the Apartment Monitoring application that supports overviewing and analyzing online reviews about rented homes. In a user study, we compared the decision-making support provided by our application with that of a baseline model that enables a temporal filtering of consumer feedback. We found out that Apartment Monitoring outperforms the baseline in user experience, user awareness of item properties, and user control during the interaction with the system. In particular, according to the participants of the study, Apartment Monitoring describes the expectations about the homes and it supports their selection in a more effective way than the baseline. These findings encourage moving from a low-level description of item properties to a service-oriented one in order to improve users’ decision-making capabilities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5733a62a0735446191fe8a8d9aa43f1e2023-11-20T09:58:10ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172020-08-011016559910.3390/app10165599Service-Aware Interactive Presentation of Items for Decision-MakingNoemi Mauro0Liliana Ardissono1Sara Capecchi2Rosario Galioto3Computer Science Department, University of Torino, Corso Svizzera 185, I10149 Torino, ItalyComputer Science Department, University of Torino, Corso Svizzera 185, I10149 Torino, ItalyComputer Science Department, University of Torino, Corso Svizzera 185, I10149 Torino, ItalyComputer Science Department, University of Torino, Corso Svizzera 185, I10149 Torino, ItalyCurrent information exploration models present low-level features or technical aspects related to the paradigm used to generate results. While this may increase transparency, it does not help the user form a personal opinion about items because it does not describe the overall experience with them. In order to address this issue, we propose the INTERactivE viSualizaTion model (INTEREST) that supports the exploration and analysis of search results by means of a graphical representation of consumer feedback aimed at making the user aware of the service properties in all the stages of fruition, focusing on the data that is most relevant to her/him. INTEREST is based on the Service Journey Maps for the design and description of user experience with services. We applied it to the home booking domain by developing the Apartment Monitoring application that supports overviewing and analyzing online reviews about rented homes. In a user study, we compared the decision-making support provided by our application with that of a baseline model that enables a temporal filtering of consumer feedback. We found out that Apartment Monitoring outperforms the baseline in user experience, user awareness of item properties, and user control during the interaction with the system. In particular, according to the participants of the study, Apartment Monitoring describes the expectations about the homes and it supports their selection in a more effective way than the baseline. These findings encourage moving from a low-level description of item properties to a service-oriented one in order to improve users’ decision-making capabilities.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/16/5599interactive information explorationinformation visualizationservice designService Journey Maps |
| spellingShingle | Noemi Mauro Liliana Ardissono Sara Capecchi Rosario Galioto Service-Aware Interactive Presentation of Items for Decision-Making Applied Sciences interactive information exploration information visualization service design Service Journey Maps |
| title | Service-Aware Interactive Presentation of Items for Decision-Making |
| title_full | Service-Aware Interactive Presentation of Items for Decision-Making |
| title_fullStr | Service-Aware Interactive Presentation of Items for Decision-Making |
| title_full_unstemmed | Service-Aware Interactive Presentation of Items for Decision-Making |
| title_short | Service-Aware Interactive Presentation of Items for Decision-Making |
| title_sort | service aware interactive presentation of items for decision making |
| topic | interactive information exploration information visualization service design Service Journey Maps |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/16/5599 |
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