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Tourists need advice about what to do in their trips. Bearing in mind the wide adoption and influence of social technologies from Web 2.0, we propose a tourism recommender system that offers tourist packages with two features: (i) they include the attractions and activities that best match the users' preferences, which are inferred from their profiles in social networks, and (ii) these packages have...
With the expansion of digital networks and TV devices and the rapid increase of the number of channels, people are exposed to an information overload, due to the presence of several hundreds of alternative programs to watch. In this context, personalization is achieved with the employment of algorithms and data collection schemes that predict and recommend to television viewers content that match...
Electronic Health Records (EHR) are a crucial element towards the implantation of information technologies in healthcare. One of the goals pursued with these artifacts is to prevent medicine misuse, for which EHR standards define fields to record medical prescriptions and medication regimens. Unfortunately, the information stored in an EHR about how and when the patient does take his/her medicines...
The development of digital television for mobile devices brings in new possibilities for informal learning, by means of interactive educational services linked to the TV programs. Some systems exist in the m-learning literature that may automatically discover the most valuable services for each viewer at any time, matching information about his/her interests, context and needs, about the services...
The misuse of medicines, often due to forgetfulness or lack of information about drugs and interactions, impinges heavily on the well-being of people and the economies of health systems. Technology can help alleviate the problem by providing assistance to monitor medicine intake, issue reminders and deliver medical advice. We present a system that accomplishes these tasks by harnessing recent advances...
We introduce an intelligent medicine cabinet as a new element of a residential network, acting as a secure place to store sensitive health information, and therefrom access a range of interactive health care applications. This paper describes the functionalities related to monitoring the intake of prescription and over-the-counter drugs, harnessing recent advances in smart medicine packaging and home...
Semantic reasoning is being increasingly applied in digital TV as a means to provide personalized information services. The pioneering initiatives have opted to place the personalization engines in the service providers' side, because the semantic mechanisms exceed - by far - the computational power of DTV receivers. Unfortunately, this approach has the drawback that it can expose data about the users'...
We present the proof-of-concept of a personalized advertising system for interactive digital TV. The system integrates advertisements with the action on screen, furnishing a pleasant experience for the viewers. It also increases the revenues for broadcasters and content creators, enabling better targeting than the current advertising practices.
The possibility of transmitting interactive applications along with the audiovisual contents will turn the television into a universal platform to access the information society. Nowadays, there is growing interest in exploiting that potential to develop distance learning policies, to supplement the facilities offered by the current e-learning technologies. This short paper describes the implementation...
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