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Towards Ontology-Driven User Experience Assessment of Collaborative Modeling Tools

2025· article· W4417251066 on OpenAlexafffund
Marko Mijalkovic, Vicheka Oeun, István Dávid, Sadaf Mustafiz

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicUsability and User Interface Design
Canadian institutionsMcMaster UniversityToronto Metropolitan University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsUser experience designData explorationUser interfaceSPARQLUser modelingPath (computing)

Abstract

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Collaborative Modeling (CM) tools increasingly offer advanced editing features, such as live co-editing, embedded chat, and automated reasoning. Yet, the impact of these features on the user experience (UX) of modeling is less understood. In this paper, we explore the relationship between CM and UX by developing a mapping between existing CM and UX ontologies. We propose CMUX Explorer, an ontology-driven assessment tool that enables tool builders to identify CM features with UX impact. The conversational front-end allows for natural-language interactions, which CMUX Explorer translates to SPARQL queries, executes them against the ontology, and returns ranked, interpretable recommendations to guide design decisions. Importantly, our approach supports continuous, semi-automated improvement of the ontology, leading to more precise recommendations over time. Through this work, we pave a path towards computer-aided design of UX-aware collaborative modeling tools.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.042
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.051

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.042
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.065
GPT teacher head0.369
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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