Title
The Whereabouts Diary
Abstract
The user profile is one of the main context-information in a wide range of pervasive computing applications. Modern handheld devices provided with localization capabilities could automatically create a diary of user's whereabouts and use that information as a surrogate (or a complement) of the user profile. The places we go, in fact, reveal also something about us, for example, two persons can be matched as compatible given the fact they visit the same places. Web-retrieved information, and the temporal patterns with which different places are visited, can be used to automatically define meaningful semantic labels to the visited places. In our work we used geocoding and white-pages Web-services to extract information about a place, and Bayesian networks to classify places on the basis of the time in which they have been visited. In this paper we describe the general idea at the basis of the whereabouts diary, discuss our implementation, and present experimental results. Finally, several applications that can exploit the diary are illustrated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-75160-1_11
Location- and Context-Awareness
Keywords
Field
DocType
main context-information,modern handheld device,localization capability,meaningful semantic label,web-retrieved information,different place,bayesian network,user profile,general idea,whereabouts diary,web service,pervasive computing,handheld device
Tuple space,Data mining,World Wide Web,User profile,Geocoding,Computer science,Semantic information,Exploit,Mobile device,Bayesian network,Ubiquitous computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4718
0302-9743
3-540-75159-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.54
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gabriella Castelli126320.63
Marco Mamei21521106.83
Alberto Rosi338122.56