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Fairy Wing: Distributed Information Service with RFID Tags

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Information recommendation in E-commerce applications often uses a social filtering method to cluster similar users based on their profiles, characteristics or attitudes on specific subjects. This paper describes Fairy Wing: a distributed information service system, which utilizes Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags as portable media for user-computer interaction with inexperienced users. The characteristics of the proposed system are summarized as follows: (1) The system is installed on small PCs with a reasonable RFID reader/writer and works with/without computer networks (2) It is effective in distributed computer environments even for a small number of users. (3) It gradually accumulates users’ profiles from individual behaviors then generates recommendations and advice for each user. A prototype system has been implemented and validated on user navigation in a shopping mall.

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  1. Graduate School of Systems Management, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, 3-29-1, Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-0012, Japan

    Eiji Murakami & Takao Terano

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  1. CREST, JST, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2-41-6, Aomi, 135-0064, Koto, Tokyo, Japan

    Koichi Kurumatani

  2. AI-ECON Research Center, Department of Economics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, 11623, Taiwan

    Shu-Heng Chen

  3. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University,  

    Azuma Ohuchi

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Murakami, E., Terano, T. (2004). Fairy Wing: Distributed Information Service with RFID Tags. In: Kurumatani, K., Chen, SH., Ohuchi, A. (eds) Multi-Agent for Mass User Support. MAMUS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24666-4_11

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