User Preferences in Intelligent Environments

ABSTRACT

Intelligent Environments and other Computer Science sub-fields based on the concepts of context and context-awareness are created with the explicit or implicit intention of providing services which are satisfying to the intended users of those environments. This article discusses the pragmatic importance of Preferences within the process of developing Intelligent Environments as a conceptual tool to achieve that system-user alignment and we also look at the practical challenges of implementing different aspects of the concept of Preferences. This study is not aimed at providing a definitive solution, rather to assess the advantages and disadvantages of different available options with the view to inform the next wave of developments in the area.

Author contributions

The context and context-awareness definitions were contributed by Prof. J. C. Augusto.

Notes

1. http://protege-project.136.n4.nabble.com/Unfathomable-error-message-td1747948.html.

Additional information

Funding

The collaboration leading to this research was partially supported by the Spanish-funded project “Holistic development of emerging applications in heterogeneous systems (HETEROLISTIC)” [TIN2016-78799-P].