Towards a Generic Socio-cultural Profile for Collaborative Environments

This paper focuses on socio-cultural user modeling in a social and intercultural collaborative context. we first, study and discuss several examples of user models in many research domains, we mainly focus on how these models are defined and represented. After that, we describe our generic and multidimensional socio-cultural profile, so, we define and justify its dimensions, its characteristics and its properties. We also describe the way the data to fill the model will be collected and updated. Finally, we discuss what we have presented and we give a brief plan of our future work to better address these important issues.