Increasing user flexibility in creating and choosing channels on public portals | |
| Author | Bui Quoc Thai |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.CS-02-27 |
| Subject(s) | World Wide Web Web portals |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. School of Advanced Teclmologies |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. CS-02-27 |
| Abstract | Navigating and managing information on the web for each person is an important topic today. With the explosive growth of the Internet and World Wide Web, users are overwhelmed with information. A method that can help the users retrieve information effectively needs to be provided. A Portal is a mechanism that enables people to navigate and collect information effectively. It is like a "door way" or a "single entry" at which users can drop by and see different things on the web. In other words, portals can collect data from different sources on the web and present them on a single page in an individualized maimer. Moreover, portal users can customize their own page with interesting color, layout, and contents. In this study, an approach for increasing user flexibility in choosing channels is researched. My study will help web sufers overcome the restriction of most current portals - portals just provide a fixed set of channels, and hence limit the content that users can view. That means the study gives a solution that allows users to create channels for themselves. This not only increases the flexibility for the users but also eliminates the tedious task in creating cha1mels from po1tal administrators. Besides, a recommendation method is developed to predict and recommend to the users what information channels the users may like. Through this recommendation, the users can discover or create the channels for themselves. |
| Year | 2002 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. CS-02-27 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies (SAT) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Computer Science (CS) |
| Chairperson(s) | Haddawy, Peter |
| Examination Committee(s) | Vilas Wuwongse ;Phan Minh Dung |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2002 |