2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

COMP3771 User Adaptive Intelligent Systems

10 Credits Class Size: 190

Module manager: Prof Vania Dimitrova
Email: V.G.Dimitrova@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

Students must study one of the below modules.

Pre-requisites

COMP2611 Artificial Intelligence

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- apply human-computer interaction methodology to identify user needs, draw requirements, design, and evaluate user-adaptive systems;
- identify most common techniques for user modelling and adaptation and apply them in practical areas;
- implement one or more recommender system techniques in a practical application;
- reason about the significance of user-adaptive systems and directions the field is going to develop.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this module, students should be able to:
-understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge and professional competencies some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in the discipline;
-deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within the discipline;
-demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument;
-describe and comment on particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship;
-appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in the discipline;
-make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources;
-apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an extended piece of work or project;
Skills outcomes
Experience and understanding of techniques for user modelling and their application to build user adaptive intelligent systems

Skills outcomes

Experience and understanding of techniques for user modelling and their application to build user adaptive intelligent systems

Syllabus

- Adaptable and adaptive systems;
- General architecture of user-adaptive systems (main components, role and importance, examples)
- User model representation and building (user model representation, user model building, explicit and implicit models, cold start, stereotypes)
- Recommender Systems (recommender systems types, content-based filtering, knowledge-based recommenders, collaborative filtering, hybrid recommender systems, adapting recommendations to groups, recommender systems evaluation)
- Adaptive content presentation (static and dynamic approaches for content adaptation)
- Evaluation of user-adaptive systems (layered evaluation, usability threats)
- Responsible personalisation (privacy, transparency, explanation, trust)

Teaching Methods

Delivery type Number Length hours Student hours
Lectures 20 1 20
Private study hours 80
Total Contact hours 20
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) 100

Private study

Recommended 40 hrs of private study, to include 20 hrs working on summative coursework and 20 hrs private study following lectures. Remaining hours to read the articles issued in lectures and revision for examination.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Progress is monitored through class exercises throughout the module and summative coursework.

Methods of Assessment

Coursework
Assessment type Notes % of formal assessment
In-course Assessment Coursework 1 40
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) 40

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated.

Exams
Exam type Exam duration % of formal assessment
Open Book exam 2.0 Hrs 0 Mins 60
Total percentage (Assessment Exams) 60

This module will be reassessed by open book examination.

Reading List

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 9/25/2024

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