Authors:
Wolfgang Woerndl
and
Huda Yousef
Affiliation:
Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Keyword(s):
Mobile Web, Personalization, User Profile, Context, Context-aware Applications, Web Searches.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Accessibility Issues and Technology
;
Data Engineering
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Personalized Web Sites and Services
;
Searching and Browsing
;
User Modeling
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
;
Web Personalization
Abstract:
Context-aware and personalized information access becomes more and more important, especially in a
mobile scenario. In this paper, we present an Adaptation Manager which customizes Web searches to a
user’s context and profile attributes. The approach allows for reuse of personal information for different
services such as the Google Web Service API. We identify personalization components as parts of our
Adaptation Manager and explain the design of the system. We have also implemented the most important
parts of the system and thereby show the usability of the approach. Our solution is extensible, for example
to incorporate a rule system to (semi-)automatically switch between services.