Efficient Representation of the Lifelong Web Browsing User Characteristics.
Márius Šajgalík, Michal Barla, Mária Bieliková · 2013
Abstract. Client-based user modelling has already been studied and clearly has its place among generic approaches to the user modelling. It is especially advantageous for lifelong user modelling as it can support the modelling in any time and any place including consideration of user privacy. Emergence of web browser extensions opens up possibilities of pure browser-based realisation of client-based user modelling. In this paper, we focus on the efficient representation of a generic user model inside a web browser, which forms the core part of browser-based user modelling framework in form of a browser extension. Efficiency is crucial also from the lifelong perspective. We propose an efficient method of lifelog indexing and modelling various user characteristics inside the web browser. We evaluated properties of proposed representation and describe its applicability in some common use cases. 1