Abstract
There is considerable value in personalising information about people’s location. Personalised Context Ontology (PECO) is an ontology for a building, and with PECO, we can provide personalised descriptions of the relevant people. For pragmatic reasons, it is important that PECO is created semi-automatically, making flexible use of a range of sources. For reasons of user control, it is important that PECO can be used to explain the personalisation. This paper describes PECO and how it is created for reasoning about a building. We also describe its use in an application called Locator, which presents information about the people in a building. PECO enables Locator to provide personalised information in two ways: it shows people of relevance and it makes use of personalised location labels. At the same time, PECO enables the user to scrutinise the reasoning about the personalisation. We report a study with eight users in which we compare a personalised and a non-adaptive versions of Locator. This indicates that people preferred the personalised version even though they could complete the designed tasks with both systems.
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Niu, W.T., Kay, J. (2008). Pervasive Personalisation of Location Information: Personalised Context Ontology. In: Nejdl, W., Kay, J., Pu, P., Herder, E. (eds) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. AH 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5149. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70987-9_17
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