iCITY can be seen as an evolution of UbiquiTO, a mobile adaptive guide that provides personalized location-based tourist information about the city of Turin. UbiquiTO integrates different forms of adaptation: to the device (web access via desktop, laptop, PDA, smartphone); to the user (personalized interaction); to the context of interaction, in particular to the user location. The main limitations of UbiquiTO are consequences of a centralized production of content and the design of iCITY aims at overcoming some of these limitations. The content conveyed by iCITY are collected in RSS format from TorinoCultura, a web portal managed by the Municipality of Torino for informing citizens about cultural ongoing events in the city. However, differently from TorinoCultura, iCITY adapts content, presentation, and navigation structures to the specific users needs. Moreover, the user is actively involved in the process of content creation. The user may add * events (and details on events) not provided by the input RSS, as well as comments and assessments on events * tags, which are keywords, labels, category names used to represent a concept that a user may relate to a specific event according with the associations in her mind In this way, the system turns out to be collaborative in a community and social network perspective. The content created by the users enriches the system knowledge, according to Web 2.0 paradigm, and it can be seen as a metaphor of the concept of peer production.

iCITY- DSA (Digital Semantic Assistant)

CONSOLE, Luca;CARMAGNOLA, Francesca;CENA, Federica;GENA, Cristina;GOY, Annamaria;TORRE, Ilaria;VERNERO, FABIANA
2007-01-01

Abstract

iCITY can be seen as an evolution of UbiquiTO, a mobile adaptive guide that provides personalized location-based tourist information about the city of Turin. UbiquiTO integrates different forms of adaptation: to the device (web access via desktop, laptop, PDA, smartphone); to the user (personalized interaction); to the context of interaction, in particular to the user location. The main limitations of UbiquiTO are consequences of a centralized production of content and the design of iCITY aims at overcoming some of these limitations. The content conveyed by iCITY are collected in RSS format from TorinoCultura, a web portal managed by the Municipality of Torino for informing citizens about cultural ongoing events in the city. However, differently from TorinoCultura, iCITY adapts content, presentation, and navigation structures to the specific users needs. Moreover, the user is actively involved in the process of content creation. The user may add * events (and details on events) not provided by the input RSS, as well as comments and assessments on events * tags, which are keywords, labels, category names used to represent a concept that a user may relate to a specific event according with the associations in her mind In this way, the system turns out to be collaborative in a community and social network perspective. The content created by the users enriches the system knowledge, according to Web 2.0 paradigm, and it can be seen as a metaphor of the concept of peer production.
2007
Dipartimento di Infomatica, Comune di Torino
ubiquitous computing; user modeling; social web; personalizzazione
Luca Console; Francesca Carmagnola; Federica Cena; Cristina Gena; Anna Goy; PierLuigi Grillo; Ilaria Torre; Omar Cortassa; Fabiana Vernero
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