Increasingly, application developers are looking for ways to provide users
with higher levels of personalization that capture different elements
of a user's operating context, such as her location, the task that she
is currently engaged in, who her colleagues are, etc. While there are
many sources of contextual information, they tend to vary from one user
to another and also over time. Different users may rely on different location
tracking functionality provided by different cell phone operators; they
may use different calendar systems, etc. As a result, context aware applications
and services often remain prohibitively expensive to develop and maintain.
myCampus is a Semantic Web environment for context-aware mobile services aimed at enhancing everyday campus life at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The environment revolves around a growing collection of task-specific agents capable of automatically accessing a variety of contextual information about their users (e.g. context-aware restaurant concierge, context-aware message filtering agent, etc.). A central element of the myCampus architecture is its use of Semantic eWallets that support the automated discovery and access of contextual resources (e.g. personal resources, organizational resources or public web services) subject to privacy (or confidentiality) constraints specified by their users.
Work in myCampus combines technology development (e.g. OWL Semantic Web reasoning engine, context-aware agents, location tracking functionality, OWL Rule Extension, etc.) with HCI evaluation methodologies. See also our related work on User Controllable Security and Privacy for Pervasive Computing.
Watch a video about MyCampus (wmv format - approx. 22MB - approx. 6min)
Dr. Norman M. Sadeh Dr. Jinghai Rao Dr. Paul Drielsma Dr. Alberto Sardinha Patrick Kelley Jialiu Lin Ian Fette Madhu Prabaker |
Jacob Albertson David Hacker Justin Pincar Michael Weber Linda Francona Former Team Members: |
CMU's Mobile Commerce Lab offers industry the following opportunities for collaboration:
Graduate student sponsorship
Lab Internships
Sponsored research projects
For further details, please contact Norman M. Sadeh
1. Jinghai Rao and Norman Sadeh. "Interleaving Semantic Web Reasoning and Service Discovery to Enforce Context-Sensitive Security and Privacy Policies ", School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Technical Report CMU-ISRI-05-113, July 2005.
2. Norman Sadeh, Fabien Gandon and Oh Buyng Kwon ., “Ambient Intelligence: The MyCampus Experience”, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Technical Report CMU-ISRI-05-123, July 2005
3. Gandon, F. and Sadeh, N., “Semantic Web Technologies to Reconcile Privacy and Context Awareness”, Web Semantics Journal. Vol. 1, No. 3, 2004.
4. Gandon, F. and Sadeh, N., “A Semantic eWallet to Reconcile Privacy and Context Awareness”, Second International Semantic Web Conference, Florida, October 2003.
5. Norman M. Sadeh, Ting-Chak Chan, Linh Van, OhByung Kwon and Kazuaki Takizawa. “Creating an Open Agent Environment for Context-aware M-Commerce”, in “Agentcities: Challenges in Open Agent Environments”, Ed. by Burg, Dale, Finin, Nakashima, Padgham, Sierra, and Willmott, LNAI, Springer Verlag, pp.152-158, 2003
6. Norman M. Sadeh, m-Commerce: Technologies, Services and Business Models, Wiley, 2002
7. S-C Chou, W-T Hsieh, F. Gandon and N. Sadeh, Semantic Web Technologies for Context-Aware Museum Tour Guide Applications, WAMIS05.
8. M. Sheshagiri, N. Sadeh and F. Gandon, Using Semantic Web Services for Context-Aware Mobile Applications MobiSys 2004 Workshop on Context Awareness, Boston, June 2004.
9. N.Miller, G. Judd, U. Hengartner, F. Gandon, P. Steenkiste, I-H Meng, M-W Feng and N. Sadeh, Context-Aware Computing Using a Shared Contextual Information Service Pervasive 2004, "Hot Spots", Vienna, April 2004.
DARPA/DAML, AFRL, IBM, HP, Symbol, Fujitsu, Boeing, Amazon, EU IST Program (SWAP), Institute for Information Industry (III), ARO/CyLab, France Telecom, Nokia.