Mobile user personalization with dynamic profiles: time and activity

  • Authors:
  • Christoforos Panayiotou;George Samaras

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus;Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

  • Venue:
  • OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Mobile clients present a new and more demanding breed of users Solutions provided for the desktop users are often found inadequate to support this new breed of users Personalization is such a solution The moving user differs from the desktop user in that his handheld device is truly personal It roams with the user and allows him access to info and services at any given time from anywhere As the moving user is not bound to a fixed place and to a given time period, factors such as time and current experience becomes increasingly important for him His context and preferences are now a function of time and experience and the goal of personalization is to match the local services to this time-depended preferences In this paper we exploit the importance of time and experience in personalization for the moving user and present a system that anticipates and compensates the time-dependant shifting of user interests A prototype system is implemented and our initial evaluation results indicate performance improvements over traditional personalization schemes that range up to 173%.