AmbieSense

This project builds intelligent agents that are mobile and distributed in order to support users mobile information spaces. RGU's research in this multi-partner project develops innovative techniques for managing content relevant to travellers, and using context to make this content available in the right form, at the right place, and the right time. The AmbieSense solution is a small and wireless context tag that can be mounted inside furniture, beside art works, or in a meeting room, shop window or open area. These tags allow one to receive content relevant to the specific situation on one's mobile phone, PDA, etc. The research uses environmental context information and individual user context information to develop leading edge personalised interactive services for mobile users. The application domain is ambient, personalised, and context-sensitive information services in the travelling and tourism domain. The ambient technology was evaluated in Oslo Airport and in tourist locations in Sevilla. AmbieSense resulted in Ayse Göker being a finalist in the Blackberry Women & Technology Awards (2005) for Best woman in technology (academia) The AmbieSense project is now a company www.ambiesense.com    [More] Partners SINTEF Telecom & Informatics (Norway) CognIT (Norway) Siemens (Germany) YellowMap AG Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) Oslo Airport (Norway) Sevilla Global (Spain) Lonely Planet (UK) Reuters (UK) Funding EU FP5 IST-2001-34244 Scottish Enterprise Grampian Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowship Research Team Ayse Göker (PI) Stuart Watt David Harper Murat Yaciki Ralf Bierig Hannah Cumming Sri Nuti Bin Hu Posters AmbieSense Related Projects SmartWeb — a centre of excellence for intelligent Web technologies ProfileSkim — an intelligent document browser Active Groups — knowledge sharing tools for email Personal Email Trainer (PET) Sentiment Analysis from Textual Data WebCluster — mediated access to the web Intelligent Websites Adaptive User Interfaces

Publications

Bierig R. and Göker A. Time, Location and Interest: An Empirical and User-Centred Study. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Information Interaction in Context, pp 79-87, ACM Press, 2006. ISBN:1-59593-482-0

Goker, A., Cumming, H., & Myrhaug, H. I. (2004). Content Retrieval and Mobile Users: An Outdoor Investigation of an Ambient Travel Guide. In the Proceedings of Mobile HCI 2004 Conference, Second international Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access, Glasgow, UK, September 2004.

Goker, A., Myrhaug, H., Yaciki, M., & Bierig, R. (2004). A context-sensitive information system for mobile users. In the Proceedings of 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context, Sheffield, UK, July 2004.

Goker, A., Watt, S., Myrhaug, H. I., Whitehead, N., Yaciki, M., & Bierig, R., (2004). Ambient personalised and c ontext-sensitive information systems for mobile users. In the Proceedings of Second International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, November 2004.

Myrhaug, H. I., Whitehead, N., Goker, A., Faegri, T. E., & Lech, T. C. (2004). AmbieSense - a system and reference architecture for personalised and context-sensitive information services for mobile users. In the Proceedings of Second International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, November 2004.

Goker, A., & He, D. (2003). Personalization via collaboration in web retrieval systems: a context based approach. In the Proceedings of American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference ASIST03, Long Beach, CA., October 19-22, pp. 357-365.

Myrhaug, H. I., & Goker, A. (2003). AmbieSense - interactive information channels in the surroundings of the mobile user. In the Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2003), Crete, Greece, 22- 27 June 2003, pp. 1158-1162.

Goker, A., & Myrhaug, H. I. (2002). User context and personalisation. In the Proceedings of ECCBR Workshop on Case Based Reasoning and Personalisation, invited paper, Aberdeen, UK.