0 the process of making something suitable for the needs of a particular person :
Finally, expert reviews or heuristics can assess issues outside personalization, like accessibility or legal issues.
Finally, the study designs appeared to consider too short an interaction time to understand the full effect of personalization on the user.
At this moment, the pros and cons of different methods of evaluating personalization have not been fully documented.
Each task was tested (a) with contextual personalization, (b) with simple personalization, and (c) without personalization.
However, a questionnaire can be very useful for measuring appreciation of personalization, user satisfaction, general opinions about the system, or for benchmarking purposes.
The improvement by the contextual personalization is similarly apparent in the cut-off precision curve, especially in the top 10 results.
In this paper we focus on the combination of contextualization and personalization methods to improve the performance of personalized information retrieval.
Then, to determine the success of personalization, scores can be determined for a personalized version of the search engine and a non-personalized variant.