

The evaluation shows that standard user modeling approaches are reasonably effective when applied to mind maps, with click-through rates (CTR) between 1.16% and 3.92%.

Docear displayed 430,893 research paper recommendations, based on 4,700 user mind maps, from March 2013 to August 2014. The approaches are applied and evaluated using our mind mapping and reference-management software Docear. Additionally, we develop novel user modeling approaches that consider the unique characteristics of mind maps. In this paper, we explored the effectiveness of standard user-modeling approaches applied to mind maps.

Mind maps have not received much attention in the user modeling and recommender system community, although mind maps contain rich information that could be valuable for user-modeling and recommender systems.
