A User Profile Ontology For Situation-Aware Social Networking

Johann Stan (1) , Elod Egyed-Zsigmond (2) , Adrien Joly (2) , Pierre Maret (1)

1 LHC - Laboratoire Hubert Curien
2 LIRIS - Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information

Today, more and more people possess mobile devices. This enables them to have access to a wide range of services, but also to be contacted anytime, anywhere, which can cause discom- fort. Users should have full control on who can reach them and how, depending on their current situation: when at work, we wish a friend didn't interrupted us, but when having a family dinner, we wish a call related to work didn't occur. Even more, situation changes need to be detected in real-time, since preferences change a lot. We present in this paper an ontology-based user profile model, that allows users to have a situation-aware social network, by controlling how reachable they are for specific categories of people in a given situation.

Mots clés: situation; context; awareness; ontologies; profile; user; interactions; reachability

Domaines: Informatique ubiquitaire

Johann Stan, Elod Egyed-Zsigmond, Adrien Joly, Pierre Maret. A User Profile Ontology For Situation-Aware Social Networking. 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence (AITAmI2008), Jul 2008, Patras, Greece. ⟨ujm-00378723⟩