Advances in Ubiquitous User Modelling

1. Front Matter

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2. Addressing Challenges of Ubiquitous User Modeling: Between Mediation and Semantic Integration

   • Shlomo Berkovsky, Dominikus Heckmann, Tsvi Kuflik

   Pages 1-19

3. Handling Semantic Heterogeneity in Interoperable Distributed User Models

   • Francesca Carmagnola

   Pages 20-36

4. A Model for Feature-Based User Model Interoperability on the Web

   • Federica Cena, Roberto Furnari

   Pages 37-54

5. Open Policies for Decentralized User Modeling in Online Communities

   • Tariq Muhammad, Julita Vassileva

   Pages 55-72

6. Automatic Generation of Semantic Metadata as Basis for User Modeling and Adaptation

   • Kees van der Sluijs, Geert-Jan Houben

   Pages 73-93

7. AUGUR: Interface Adaptation for Small Screen Devices

   • Melanie Hartmann, Daniel Schreiber

   Pages 94-110

8. User Modeling for Pedestrian Navigation Services

   • Panayotis Kikiras, Vassileios Tsetsos, Vassilis Papataxiarhis, Thanassis Katsikas, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades

   Pages 111-133

9. Semantic Integration of Adaptive Educational Systems

   • Sergey Sosnovsky, Peter Brusilovsky, Michael Yudelson, Antonija Mitrovic, Moffat Mathews, Amruth Kumar

   Pages 134-158

10. Back Matter

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Ubiquitous user modeling differs from generic user modeling by three additional concepts: ongoing modeling, ongoing sharing, and ongoing exploitation. Systems that share their user models will improve the coverage, the level of detail, and the reliability of the integrated user models and thus allow better functions of adaptation. Ubiquitous user modeling implies new challenges of interchangeability, scalability, scrutability, and privacy. This volume presents results of a series of workshops on the topic of Ubiquitous User Modeling since 2003 and additional workshops at various other conferences e.g. on User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia in the last four years. The 8 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the best lectures given at the workshops and were significantly extended to be included in the book.

• HCI
• adaptive hypermedia
• adaptive systems
• authoring
• cognitive science
• collaborative techniques
• context awareness
• data mining
• e-learning
• faceted browsing
• human-centered design
• human-computer interaction
• inference agents
• modeling
• privacy

• Management Information Systems Department, The University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  Tsvi Kuflik

• Tasmanian ICT Centre, CSIRO, Castrayh Esplanade, Hobart, Australia

  Shlomo Berkovsky

• Depatment of Computer Science, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

  Francesca Carmagnola

• German Reserach Center for Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent User Interfaces, Saarbrcken, Germany

  Dominikus Heckmann

• Innovative Retail Laboratory (IRL), German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken, Germany

  Antonio Krüger

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