Personalization of content in virtual exhibitions

  • Authors:
  • Bill Bonis;John Stamos;Spyros Vosinakis;Ioannis Andreou;Themis Panayiotopoulos

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece;Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece;Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean, Syros, Greece;Department of Technology Education and Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece;Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

  • Venue:
  • SAMT'07 Proceedings of the semantic and digital media technologies 2nd international conference on Semantic Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Presentation of content is an important aspect of today's virtual reality applications, especially in domains such as virtual exhibitions. The large amount and variety of exhibits in such applications raise a need for adaptation and personalization of the environment. This paper presents a content personalization framework for Virtual Exhibitions, which is based on a semantic description of content and on information implicitly collected about the users through their interaction. The proposed framework uses stereotypes to initialize user models, adapts user profiles dynamically and clusters users into interest groups. A 3D virtual museum has been implemented as a case study, and an evaluation has been conducted.