Locator
Judy Kay, Bob Kummerfeld, Mark Assad, David Carmichael, William Niu
School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney
Contact Person
Bob Kummerfeld
bob@it.usyd.edu.au
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Project Description
Locator is a demonstrator application of Personis.
Locator provides an interface which enables a community of people to locate other members
of the community.
To join the community, a user needs to register both themself and sensors that can
provide evidence about their location.
For example, a Bluetooth enabled phone can be registered.
Another class of sensor is an activity sensor that detects when a person's computer
is in use.
The underlying infrastructure for Locator is based on Personis, which models people, places and
devices. It makes use of a range of varyingly reliable evidence to reason about an individual's location.
As Locator has been in actual use of a long period of time, it has provided insights
into the way that people use and respond to such information about each other as well as
and people's attitudes to management of privacy.
Key Publications
W. T. Niu and J. Kay. PERSONAF: Framework for personalised ontological reasoning in pervasive computing. User modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: the Journal of Personalization Research, 20(1):1-40, 2010. [View Details]
W. Niu and J. Kay. Pervasive personalisation of location information: Personalised context ontology. In AH: International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, pages 143-152, 2008. [View Details]
W. Niu and J. Kay. Location conflict resolution with an ontology. In Proceedings of Pervasive 2008: 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, pages 162-179, 2008. [View Details]
D. Carmichael. Myplace: supporting scrutability and user control in location modelling. PhD thesis, 2008. [View Details]
M. Assad, D. J. Carmichael, J. Kay, and B. Kummerfeld. PersonisAD: Distributed, active, scrutable model framework for context-aware services. In Proceedings of PERVASIVE 07, 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, volume 4480 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 55-72. Springer, 2007. [View Details]
M. Assad, D. J. Carmichael, J. Kay, and B. Kummerfeld. MyPlace Locator: Flexible sharing of location information. In Proceedings of UM 2007, 11th International Conference on User Modeling, pages 410-414. Springer, 2007. [View Details]
W. Niu and J. Kay. Improving location reasoning with an ontology. Technical report, 2007. [View Details]
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