ubicomp workshop – personalized context models

1. Personalization and Context Aware Services: A Middleware Perspective

Fahim Kawsar, Kaori Fujinami, Susanna Pirttikangas, and Tatsuo Nakajima George Bernard Shaw

- “The reasonble man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. herefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man”

Personalization => proactive, pervasive, preference

Requirements => structured representation (API)

2. MyWorkPlace: Personalised information about a Ubiquitous Computing enabled building

David Carmichael, Judy Kay, Bob Kummerfeld, and William Niu (University of Sydney)

Invisibility Problem: If the ubicomp apps disappear into the environment, users may not discover the available services. You want it to be invisible, but if it is invisible there are many problems.

MyPlace – personalized views of the current context. You can see whats hidden in the environment. Support the scrutiny of personalisation (being able to understand an app). Personalized display of information about devices in the environment. Different people will have different views of the environment.

Modelling Changing Values – http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/research/tr/tr594.pdf

3. Personalization and Context Aware Services: A Middleware Perspective

Pekka Ala-Siuru, and Tapani Rantakokko (VTT Finland)

Personalizing the profile feature in a mobile phone. How to let the mobile phone know where it is. Trying to get information to the phone, in order to automatically change the profile.

Case Based Reasoning – learning from earlier experiences.

Used GSM base station data (cell ID) + Bluetooth

http://wigen.net

4. Applying Inference Engine to Context-Aware Computing Services