Method of indirect specification of user preferences
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1. A system for interactively obtaining computer user preferences comprising:
- a base set of graphical metaphor objects, said graphical metaphor objects representing recognizable multi-trait profiles;
a preselected list of attributes describing each of said graphical metaphor objects;
a first graphical template which enables entering of a value representing a user'"'"'s preferences, including likes and dislikes, of each of said graphical metaphor objects, a second template for extracting a user'"'"'s valued preferences of a connection between two objects;
said extracting of a user'"'"'s preferences of a value of a connection comprises entering a value representing a user'"'"'s preferences of each of said graphical metaphors as it relates to said connection;
blending of each of said multi-trait graphical object attributes based on said user values to provide a weighted evaluation, andwherein a user preference profile is determined based on said weighted evaluation of each of said values entered as they relate to said preselected list of attributes and a connection attribute profile is further determined based on an ordering and truncation of said weighted evaluation.
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Abstract
A system and method for allowing communication of a large number of parameters from a computer user to an application program with a relatively small amount of interaction. The system uses a plurality of graphical metaphors to represent a collection of known personality or collective knowledge representations to extract a computer user'"'"'s preferences. A computer user expresses how much likeness exists between themselves and a set of metaphoric graphical objects which is translated into an intermediary format which enables the computer to provide a higher quality of pattern matching and differentiation.
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1. A system for interactively obtaining computer user preferences comprising:
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a base set of graphical metaphor objects, said graphical metaphor objects representing recognizable multi-trait profiles; a preselected list of attributes describing each of said graphical metaphor objects; a first graphical template which enables entering of a value representing a user'"'"'s preferences, including likes and dislikes, of each of said graphical metaphor objects, a second template for extracting a user'"'"'s valued preferences of a connection between two objects;
said extracting of a user'"'"'s preferences of a value of a connection comprises entering a value representing a user'"'"'s preferences of each of said graphical metaphors as it relates to said connection;blending of each of said multi-trait graphical object attributes based on said user values to provide a weighted evaluation, and wherein a user preference profile is determined based on said weighted evaluation of each of said values entered as they relate to said preselected list of attributes and a connection attribute profile is further determined based on an ordering and truncation of said weighted evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. An article of manufacture comprising a computer user medium having computer readable program code embodied therein which interactively obtains computer user preferences from a discrete number of graphical metaphor objects representing recognizable multi-trait profiles comprising:
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computer readable program code which comprises a base set of said graphical metaphor objects; computer readable program code which comprises a preselected list of attributes describing said graphical metaphor objects; computer readable program code which comprises a first graphical template which enables entering of a value representing a user'"'"'s preferences, including likes and dislikes, of each of said graphical metaphor objects, a second template for extracting a user'"'"'s valued preferences of a connection between two objects, said extracting of a user'"'"'s preferences of a value of a connection comprises entering a value representing a user'"'"'s preferences of each of said graphical metaphors as it relates to said connection; computer readable program code which comprises a blending of each of said multi-trait graphical object attributes based on said user values to provide a weighted evaluation, and wherein a user preference profile is determined based on said weighted evaluation of each of said values entered as they relate to said preselected list of attributes, a connection attribute profile is determined based on a weighted evaluation of each of said values entered as they relate to said preselected list of attributes and an ordering and truncation of said weighted evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (5)
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6. A computer program product usable with a programmable computer having computer readable program code embodied therein which interactively obtains computer user preferences from a discrete number of graphical metaphor objects representing recognizable multi-trait profiles comprising:
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computer readable program code which comprises a base set of said graphical metaphor objects; computer readable program code which comprises a preselected list of attributes describing said graphical metaphor objects; computer readable program code which comprises a first graphical template which enables entering of a value representing a user'"'"'s preferences, including likes and dislikes, of each of said graphical metaphor objects, a second template for extracting a user'"'"'s valued preferences of a connection between two objects, wherein said extracting of a user'"'"'s preferences of a value of a connection comprises entering a value representing a user'"'"'s preferences of each of said graphical metaphors as it relates to said connection; computer readable program code which comprises a blending of each of said multi-trait graphical object attributes based on said user values to provide a weighted evaluation, and wherein a user preference profile is determined based on a weighted evaluation of each of said values entered as they relate to said preselected list of attributes, a connection attribute profile is determined based on a weighted evaluation of each of said values entered as they relate to said preselected list of attributes and on an ordering and truncation of said weighted evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (7)
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