Context-based User Profile Management for Personalized Services.
Youngjung Suh, Dong‐oh Kang, Woontack Woo · 2005
Frameworks for context-aware services in a ubiquitous computing environment have been developed so far to allow the application services in the environment to monitor a sequence of patterns in user behavior as well as to manage the aggregated user profiles in one server. However, it is a great burden for the whole environment to attend to the individual desires of the users. Thus, we propose a user profile management framework in which the user’s desires, needs, and preferences for services are managed through a wearable personal station, a terminal device worn by users. We exploit service-specific user preferences by describing them as context to provide personalized services. Also, we dynamically update the preferences by learning them. The details such as service properties or contents can be adaptively changed according to the learning results. The proposed framework can be widely exploited for ubiComp-enabling applications which require the interaction between a user and an environment. Moreover, it may support personalized services while ensuring user’s privacy.