A user model for personalization services

Author

Joung, Yesun ; El Zarki, Magda ; Jain, Ramesh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

1-4 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A user model is essential to support personalization services. However, the user models that are used in most systems are designed in an ad-hoc manner and often related to their application domains. It hinders service interoperability and increases the amount of work. In this paper, we focus on defining a general user model in order to represent user information and the user context. This paper contributes two points: a survey on existing context based systems and a user model for personalization. The survey analyses previous context based systems and provides different kinds of features used in their systems. Based on this survey, we propose a user model to capture user information and contexts for personalization application.

Keywords

information needs; information retrieval; ubiquitous computing; user modelling; context based systems survey; personalization service; service interoperability; user context; user information representation; user model; Context modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Information Management, 2009. ICDIM 2009. Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ann Arbor, MI

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4253-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4254-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDIM.2009.5356766

Filename

5356766