Abstract
Users access information services with a variety of devices and with different interaction modes that depend on personal characteristics (including disabilities) and on the context of usage. With the appearance of mobile devices, the industry has focused its efforts on the standardization of device characteristics, thus giving to information providers some content adaptation facilities. However, little attention has been paid to the standardization of user profiles that will allow further customization and adaptation capabilities in mainstream services. This paper will present the authors’ experiences in outlining and implementing user profiles, as well as possible integration paths with device characteristics.
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Incorporating Requirements of People with Special Needs or Impairments to Internet-based Systems and Services (IRIS). Partially funded by the Information Society Technologies Programme (European Commission), IST-2000–26211. http://www.iris-design4all.org/
World Wide Web Consortium, http://www.w3.org/.
Wireless Telephony Application Specification, defined also by the Open Mobile Alliance.
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/
The IPCA (Intelligent Physiological Navigation and Control of Web-based Applications) project (IST-2001–37370). http://www.ipca.info/
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Parts of this work have been undertaken in the framework of the project IRIS IST-2000-26211, co-funded by the European Commission. The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of their colleagues from European Dynamics S.A., University of the Aegean, Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik (FIT), University of the Basque Country and ISdAC (Information Society disAbilities Challenge International Association).
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Velasco, C.A., Mohamad, Y., Gilman, A.S. et al. Universal access to information services—the need for user information and its relationship to device profiles. Univ Access Inf Soc 3, 88–95 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-003-0075-5
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