User adaptive systems

As it is a website which deals with music, and it would have so many clients (members) with different kind of musics such as : Rock, Soul, House, Hip-Hop, Blues, etc. The most appropriate user-adaptive features for this website are:

- SUPPORTING INFORMATION ACQUISITION
- SUPPORTING SYSTEM USE

These user-adaptive features are suitable for this specific case, because it includes all the main personalisation features to the website, as it will deals with different users and it might need to improve its interface in a way which the user finds easier to use it. We also would need to get some informations to help us to suggest some albums that a determined user might like. It is necessary to give some help to the user of how to use the application or perform some actions itself. Deals the real world interaction in the website.

SUPPORTING INFORMATION ACQUISITION

With this feature we will enable the system (site) to get as much information we can get from the user(client) and about the albums, as well as the artists. We also will let users to access as much informations we can give about the site and the world of music, such that the website will not be only for sale, but for keep clients up to date in the music world.
In order to get this we use techniques for collection and analysing information. And it can be achieved by collecting visitor information, filtering, and developing recommendations.
Collecting visitor information – we can develop a profile that describes a site visitor interests, entitlements, purchases, etc. For it we can use some techniques which are explicit profiling, implicit profiling, and using legacy data:
- Explicit profiling asks visitor to fill out information, questionnaires or leaving comments. Here we let customers tell the site directly what they want. By asking the visitor to specify profile information, such as, the category of music he likes, favourite artists and shows he went, etc.
- Implicit profiling tracks the