IYOUIT – Share, Life, Blog, Play
Sebastian Boehm, Johan Koolwaaij, Marko Luther, Matthias Wagner, Martin Wibbels, Landsberger Strasse, Telematica Instituut · 2009
IYOUIT is a prototype mobile service to pioneer a context-aware digital lifestyle and its reflection on the Web. The service is made freely available and leverages Semantic Web technology to implement smart application features. We intend to not only present and demonstrate IYOUIT at ISWC’08 but also to provide it to conference attendees, based on their demand. 1. OVERVIEW IYOUIT 1 is a mobile application that allows users to automatically collect so-called context information centered on places they visit and people they meet. The application aims at making it easy to collect such data on a standard phone and facilitates an instant and light-hearted sharing of personal experiences within communities and rich contextual tagging for use in everyday life. All data collected by IYOUIT is aggregated into a wealth of context information and made accessible to the user on the Web and on the mobile phone. For selected contextual sources, value is added through the transformation of quantitative context information into qualitative statements about a user’s given situation. By hooking up to Web2.0 services like Flickr and Twitter, the application allows the user to share personal context with others online. Sharing can be instant, by posting single data items to such services, or through the aggregated contextual experience in potentially lifelong online blogs. IYOUIT is a fully functional research prototype that can be experienced as an always-on service on the mobile phone, as an added value to 3 rd party Web services or as a set of components for application development. Both, from our research perspective as well as in its service features, IYOUIT is shaped towards the four target application domains Share, Life, Blog and Play.