Adapting to the user's needs and preferences

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Adapting to the user's needs and preferences

• Behzad Kateli

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Content Publishing

• The medium of by which content is publishing has
  changed
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Annotations
• The way is which users search for content has
  changed
• FOAF/creator descriptions

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Annotations

• Annotations can be
• Notes
• Summaries
• Web Pages
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Annotations can be attached to web documents

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Adapting to User Needs and Preferences

• Based on IMS AccessForAll metadata specification.
• A user can create a Access For All user profiles
  which allows them to customise content based on
• Display Preferences
• Control Preferences
• Content Preferences

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Display Preferences

• Font Face, Size
• Foreground, Background Colour
• Using Screen readers
• Using a Braille display
• Tactile technology
• Visual Alters

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Control Preferences

• Enhancing Keyboard
• Mouse Emulation
• Voice Recognition
• Structural Navigation
• etc

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Content Preferences

• Alternative to visual
• Alternatives to audio
• Alternatives to text
• etc

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AnnoSource

• An experimental Annotation client which
  integrates Access For All FOAF/VCard creator
  descriptions.
• User can create annotations and include FOAF
  information
• User can create an Access For All profile
• Annotations customise based on user preferences

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Additions to AnnoSource

• AnnoSource includes customised/local services for
  content preferences
• Language Translation
• Braille Font Translation
• Include author/creator FOAF information

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Demonstration

• Adding an annotation which includes information
  about OzeWAI 2005

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Adding an Annotation
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Adding an Annotation cont.
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Adding an Annotation cont.
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Adapting to Display Preferences - Example

• Peter has visual preferences. He wants content to
  be Cursive Font Face, large text and include
  black background with yellow text

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Example Cont.
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Example Cont. Transformed Annotation
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Adapting to Content Preferences - Example

• Peter is an Italian student. Sometimes he prefers
  to view content in Italian
• AnnoSource uses on-line language translation
  servers to transform annotation content to
  variety of different languages.
• Google Language Tools
• Altavista - Babel Fish Language Translation

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Example Cont.
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Example Cont. Transformed Annotation
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Language Translation Other Examples

• English to Spanish

• English to Japanese

• English to Korean

• English to Portuguese

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Including FOAF information

• Peter wants to view creator information

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Example Cont. Transformed Annotation With
FOAF (Italian)
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Adapting to Control Preferences - Example

• Peter doesnt want to view the full annotation
  but just a summary.

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Example Cont. Transformed Annotation With
Summary

• English

• Italian

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Braille Example
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Braille Example - Cont
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More Information

• AnnoSource Website http//matchbox01.cs.latrobe.ed
  u.au/annosource/
• Contact Information
• Behzad Kateli B.Kateli_at_latrobe.edu.au