Veranstaltungsdetails - Fachbereich 4

Measuring User Experience in Geographic Search

Dienstag, 15. Juli 2014 um 13:15 Uhr

Vortrag im Rahmen des Oberseminars Maschinelles Lernen:

Thema des Vortrags im Rahmen des Oberseminars Maschinelles Lernen: „Measuring User Experience in Geographic Search“

Referent: Zeno Gantner, HERE Maps Search, Berlin

Wann? Dienstag, 15.07.2014  um 13:15 Uhr

Wo? Raum B26, Campus Samelsonplatz der Uni Hildesheim

Info (in English): At HERE Maps Search, we are always looking for ways to make better use of implicit user feedback, i.e. the user actions (queries, "clicks"). One idea is to identify usage patterns that indicate a particularly bad user experience. Recognizing such patterns would allow us to find query strings/categories to improve, and to identify quality regressions. Just looking at simple signals like click-through rate (CTR) is not sufficient in geographic search, because user actions are harder to correlate with user satisfaction than e.g. in document search or online shopping. We suggest a goodness measure/objective function for category search user experience on HERE Maps.We also describe several click-based signals that can describe usage/click patterns, and show preliminary experiments

Kontakt bei Rückfragen: Prof. Dr. Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Information Systems and Machine Learning Lab (ISMLL), http://www.ismll.uni-hildesheim.de