OUPIP

This article aims to propose an ontological user model called OUPIP (Ontology-Based User Profile for Impairment Person), that extends existing ontologies to help designers and developers to adapt applications and devices according to the user's profile, disability and dynamic context. Besides, the approach has been applied in a typical real-life scenario in which personalized services are provided to impairment person through a mobile phone.

Locating Identities in Time: An Examination of the Formation and Impact of Temporality on Presentations of the Self through Location-Based Social Networks

Studies of identity and location-based social networks (LBSN) have tended to focus on the performative aspects associated with marking one's location. Yet these studies often present this practice as being an a priori aspect of locative media. What is missing from this research is a more granular understanding of how this process develops over time. Accordingly, we focus on the first 6 weeks of 42 users beginning to use an LBSN we designed and named GeoMoments . Through our analysis of our users' activities, we contribute to understanding identity and LBSN in two distinct ways. First, we show how LBSN users develop and perform self-identity over time. Second, we highlight the extent these temporal processes reshape the behaviors of users. Overall, our results illustrate that although a performative use of GeoMoments does evolve, this development does not occur in a vacuum. Rather, it occurs within the dynamic context of everyday life, which is prompted, conditioned, and mediated by the way the affordances of GeoMoments digitally organize and archive past locational traces.

Transforming the Productivity of People in the Built Environment

This chapter explores how we create and support a digitally enabled, agile, competent, and ultimately, productive workforce and determines the key research questions that need to be addressed if Digital Built Britain (DBB) is to provide return on investment and succeed as the catalyst for evolving the manner in which we conceive, plan, design, construct, operate, and interact with the built environment. The proposed vision is a digital competency management ecosystem where interdependent stakeholders are incentivised to work together in coopetition to create, capture, infer, interpret, specify, integrate, accredit, apply, use, monitor, and evolve competence as a working (data) asset. This needs to be in a consistent, objective, explicit, and scalable manner, with end2end transparency and traceability for all stakeholders that overcome the challenges of competency management. Moreover, a core element must be an ecosystem organised around digital infrastructure of competency frameworks and other knowledge sources of competence, so that competency frameworks are in digital operation and dynamic context.

University-Community Links as a Sociotechnical Activity System

In this chapter, the authors continue to approach UC Links as a sociotechnical activity system, viewing the collaborative work of community and university partners as activity that takes place in localized primary work settings and in a geographically and institutionally dispersed community of learners. Following Rogoff, this chapter adjusts analytical lenses from a focus on the local program site to view this cognitive process at both the whole organizational and macrosocial planes of observation. In the example of the UC Links network, whole organizational systems consist of broader collectivities of people who work across interconnected primary work systems, as people in those various primary settings learn from each other and coordinate their own localized efforts with others beyond their immediate range of activity. On the macrosocial plane, external constraints and opportunities impacting the primary and whole organizational systems come into focus as formative conditions defining the dynamic context in which primary activities emerge.