Environment Adaptation Meeting User Preferences

Abstract

Abstract. Automatic adaptation of the environment to user preferences relieves users from continuously re-configuring their physical context as periodic everyday activities are performed. However, the problem of environment adaptation has been traditionally solved via ad-hoc context-specific solutions for concrete problems and situations. In this paper we present the WebProfiles Markup Language, a mechanism for Ubiquitous Computing, enabling user preferences representation capabilities for influencing surrounding devices and services, so that the environment meets the user and knows him as if specifically designed for that purpose. 1