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| Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Published in Proceedings | Yes |
| Title | Designing User Interfaces for Hidden Markets |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
| Event Title | Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Intelligence and Interaction |
| Event Type | workshop |
| Event Location | Pasadena, CA |
| Event Start Date | July 11 - 2009 |
| Event End Date | July 13 - 2009 |
| Place of Publication | Pasadena, CA |
| Abstract Text | Market-based intelligent systems are becoming increasingly important in our everyday lives. However, when the goal of these systems is not the sale or purchase of items, traditional interfaces allowing users to specify bid or ask prices are no longer appropriate. Thus, there is a need for different kinds of user interfaces to interact with these “hidden markets”. In this paper, we present a novel user interface for one particular market-based system: a P2P backup application. The primary goal of the UI is to hide the market from the user as much as possible. Thus, the two main design challenges are how to provide current market information to the user without using prices or account balances, and how to elicit the user’s preferences with as little interaction as possible. The UI described in this paper is already implemented as part of a Microsoft research project on P2P backup systems and an internal alpha version of the software has been released. We are currently designing a usability study to evaluate the UI empirically. |
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