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Supporting the awareness of shared interests and experiences in communities

Yasuyuki Sumi, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2002 - 
- Vol. 56, Iss: 1, pp 127-146
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The aims of the project are to build a tour guidance system personalized according to its user's individual contexts, and to facilitate knowledge communications among communities by matchmaking users having shared interests and providing real and/or virtual places for their meetings.
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In this paper, we propose a notion of facilitating encounters and knowledge sharing among people having shared interests and experiences in museums, conferences, etc. In order to show our approach and its current state, this paper presents our project to build a communityware system situated in real-world contexts. The aims of the project are to build a tour guidance system personalized according to its user's individual contexts, and to facilitate knowledge communications among communities by matchmaking users having shared interests and providing real and/or virtual places for their meetings. In this paper, we first show PalmGuide, a hand-held tour guidance system. After that, we show two systems designed to increase the level of “community awareness”. One is called Semantic Map, a visual interface for exploring community information, such as exhibits and people (focusing on exhibitors and visitors). The other is called AgentSalon, a display showing conversations between personal agents according to their users' profiles and interests.

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Adaptive interfaces and agents

Anthony Jameson
TL;DR: As its title suggests, this chapter covers a broad range of interactive systems, and one idea in common is that it can be worthwhile for a system to learn something about each individual user and adapt its behavior to them in some nontrivial way.
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Creativity and innovation.

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- 01 Jan 1992 - 
TL;DR: Develops appropriately comprehensive plans before implementing changes; evaluates and modifies approach as needed on an ongoing basis to ensure success.
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Augmenting the social space of an academic conference

Joseph F. McCarthy, +4 more
TL;DR: This work designed, implemented and deployed a suite of proactive display applications at a recent academic conference: AutoSpeakerID augmented formal conference paper sessions; Ticket2Talk augmented informal coffee breaks, and discusses how these social space augmentations relate to the concepts of focus and nimbus as well as the problem of shared interaction models.
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Musex: A system for supporting children's collaborative learning in a museum with PDAs

Koji Yatani, +3 more
- 01 Dec 2004 - 
TL;DR: A museum is focused on as one of the appropriate locations where “integrated courses” are held and a system named Musex is constructed for supporting children's learning with two personal digital assistants (PDAs).
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Proactive displays: Supporting awareness in fluid social environments

David W. McDonald, +4 more
- 19 Jan 2008 - 
TL;DR: This work evaluates a suite of applications that augment three physical social spaces at an academic conference to extend the opportunities for interaction among attendees by using technology to enable them to reveal information about their background and interests in different settings.
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Social information filtering: algorithms for automating “word of mouth”

Upendra Shardanand, +1 more
TL;DR: The implementation of a networked system called Ringo, which makes personalized recommendations for music albums and artists, and four different algorithms for making recommendations by using social information filtering were tested and compared.
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Some computer science issues in ubiquitous computing

Mark D. Weiser
- 01 Jul 1993 - 
TL;DR: What is new and different about the computer science in ubiquitous computing is explained, and a series of examples drawn from various subdisciplines of computer science are outlined.
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Cyberguide: a mobile context-aware tour guide

Gregory D. Abowd, +5 more
- 01 Oct 1997 - 
TL;DR: The Cyberguide project is presented, in which the authors are building prototypes of a mobile context‐aware tour guide that is used to provide more of the kind of services that they come to expect from a real tour guide.
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Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide: some issues and experiences

Keith Cheverst, +4 more
TL;DR: An evaluation of GUIDE, an intelligent electronic tourist guide that combines mobile computing technologies with a wireless infrastructure to present city visitors with information tailored to both their personal and environmental contexts is presented.
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A touring machine: prototyping 3D mobile augmented reality systems for exploring the urban environment

Steven Feiner, +3 more
TL;DR: A prototype system that combines the overlaid 3D graphics of augmented reality with the untethered freedom of mobile computing is described, to explore how these two technologies might together make possible wearable computer systems that can support users in their everyday interactions with the world.