Unobtrusive User Profiling: The Use of RFID to Create a Smart Wardrobe

Maria Indrawan, Seng Loke, Sea Ling, Frida Samara

2007

Abstract

Many profiling systems rely on the user interactions directly with the systems to gather their raw data. We present a profiling system based onRFIDs. Unlike many profiling systems, the proposed profiling system is unobtrusive because it does not interact directly with a mobile device or computer systems. As proof of concept, we illustrate the idea by developing a Smart Wardrobe system which creates the profile by observing the movement of clothing items that have been tagged by RFID, in or out of the wardrobe. Based on the observations, the fashion profile of the user is generated. The prototype shows that meaningful profile can be created and can be used to feed other applications, such as shopping assistant or recommender systems.

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in Harvard Style

Indrawan M., Loke S., Ling S. and Samara F. (2007). Unobtrusive User Profiling: The Use of RFID to Create a Smart Wardrobe . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges - Volume 1: IWRT, (ICEIS 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-01-2, pages 3-13. DOI: 10.5220/0002433400030013


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iwrt07,
author={Maria Indrawan and Seng Loke and Sea Ling and Frida Samara},
title={Unobtrusive User Profiling: The Use of RFID to Create a Smart Wardrobe},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges - Volume 1: IWRT, (ICEIS 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={3-13},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002433400030013},
isbn={978-989-8111-01-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges - Volume 1: IWRT, (ICEIS 2007)
TI - Unobtrusive User Profiling: The Use of RFID to Create a Smart Wardrobe
SN - 978-989-8111-01-2
AU - Indrawan M.
AU - Loke S.
AU - Ling S.
AU - Samara F.
PY - 2007
SP - 3
EP - 13
DO - 10.5220/0002433400030013