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The Personalization Paradox: the Conflict between Accurate User Models and Personalized Adaptive Systems
Santiago Ontañón, Jichen Zhu
Personalized adaptation technology has been adopted in a wide range of digital applications such as health, training and education, e-commerce and entertainment. Personalization sy…
Player-Centered AI for Automatic Game Personalization: Open Problems
Jichen Zhu, Santiago Ontañón
Computer games represent an ideal research domain for the next generation of personalized digital applications. This paper presents a player-centered framework of AI for game perso…
Personalization Paradox in Behavior Change Apps: Lessons from a Social Comparison-Based Personalized App for Physical Activity
Jichen Zhu, Diane H. Dallal, Robert C. Gray +4
Social comparison-based features are widely used in social computing apps. However, most existing apps are not grounded in social comparison theories and do not consider individual…
Player Modeling via Multi-Armed Bandits
Robert C. Gray, Jichen Zhu, Dannielle Arigo +2
This paper focuses on building personalized player models solely from player behavior in the context of adaptive games. We present two main contributions: The first is a novel appr…
Regression Oracles and Exploration Strategies for Short-Horizon Multi-Armed Bandits
Robert C. Gray, Jichen Zhu, Santiago Ontañón
This paper explores multi-armed bandit (MAB) strategies in very short horizon scenarios, i.e., when the bandit strategy is only allowed very few interactions with the environment.…
Understanding Learners' Problem-Solving Strategies in Concurrent and Parallel Programming: A Game-Based Approach
Jichen Zhu, Katelyn Alderfer, Brian Smith +2
Concurrent and parallel programming (CPP) is an increasingly important subject in Computer Science Education. However, the conceptual shift from sequential programming is notorious…