Theme Issue on Adaptation and Personalization for Ubiquitous Computing
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 16 (5):
467-468 (June 2012)DOI: 10.1007/s00779-011-0441-x
Abstract
Ubiquitous computing is a human-centered paradigm that aims to provide users with adaptive and personalized services according to their surrounding context. Adaptation and personalization technologies are thus an important basis of ubiquitous computing. They are also the core for realizing context awareness in pervasive service provisioning. In ubiquitous computing environments, people are surrounded by many networked computers, both fixed (e.g., PCs, TVs) and mobile devices such as PDAs, cellular phones, etc. People are increasingly able to access their desired content, anytime, anywhere using the available devices. To offer the right information to users at the right time, right place and in the right way is challenging for many reasons, such as varying user interests, heterogeneous environments and devices, dynamic networks, information overload, user privacy, and so on. This theme issue aims to explore adaptation and personalization services and technologies for ubiquitous computing.
