To have buildings that are able to adapt to the user needs and at the same time to operate efficiently, it is essential to know the activity the people are performing. Presence sensors, which are widely deployed in modern buildings, attempt to regulate lighting to the presence of people in indoor spaces. Though, much more in terms of comfort and energy efficiency can be achieved if more detaile...

The advent of the Internet, personal computer networks and interactive television networks has lead to an explosion of information available online from thousands of new sources, a situation which is overwhelming to the end-user and is likely to worsen in the future. Personalization technologies have emerged as specialized tools in assisting users with their information needs. Personalization c...

— This paper presents Sc@ut Generator as a powerful tool that allows the design of personalized communicators. It can be used by teachers or people responsible for a person with communication problem. Communicators run on PC or mobile devices like Pocket PC or the video-console intendo DS. Its use in education special schools helps the adaptation of the educative context to the user needs and c...

The most common approach to content selection for educational purposes is often focused on how to display these contents in the variety of devices that the user could have (PC, PDA, mobiles, etc.); neither user needs nor preferences are taken into account, nor the desired features for accessible content. This paper depicts the standard based Expert System that is being developed on the framewor...

The more hand-held computing and nomadic systems become popular and significantly address the market, the more the design of applications based on such systems need new metaphors and interaction paradigms to fit user needs in new contexts of use. On the one hand emerging technologies like Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) offer new opportunities of use, on the other hand the applications that t...