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A major challenge for creating personalized diet and activity applications is to capture static, semi-static and dynamic information about a person in a user-friendly way. Sharing and reusing information between heterogeneous sources like social networking applications, personal health records, specialized applications for diet and exercise monitoring, and personal devices with attached sensors can achieve a better understanding of the user. But gathering distributed user information from heterogeneous sources and making sense of it to enable user model interoperability entails handling the semantic heterogeneity of the user models. In this paper we describe a flexible user modeling ontology to provide representation for a ubiquitous user model and a process of concept alignment for interoperability between heterogeneous sources to address the lack of interoperability between profile suppliers and consumers. We provide an example of how information of different profile suppliers can be used to enrich fitness applications and personalize web services.
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Martínez-Villaseñor, M.d.L.G., González-Mendoza, M. (2012). Towards Ubiquitous User Modeling Interoperability for Dealing with Overweight and Obesity. In: Bravo, J., Hervás, R., Rodríguez, M. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living and Home Care. IWAAL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7657. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35395-6_44
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