Enterprise Contextual Notifier, Contextual Tag Clouds towards more Relevant Awareness

International audienceOn the so-called Web 2.0, numerous Social Networking Sites (SNS) have known a tremendous success as they brought new ways to communicate, interact, learn about people, and share content with them. Besides improving informal social ties, transposing Awareness to the enterprise is very promising for promoting collaboration. However, it can easily lead to information overload, which means productivity loss. With our prototype, we propose a way to stimulate enterprise internal communication while improving the relevance of these interactions with the current working context of their users. This prototype is an efficient tool for cooperation and for discovering relevant people and knowledge

Efficient Reachability Management With A Semantic User Profile Framework

International audienceThe possession of mobile devices with the ”always online”paradigm eased a lot our communication habits: contacting somebodyis becoming more and easier. A major drawback of this is the scenariowhen an important meeting is interrupted by an unexpected phone callfrom a friend. The need for an efficient control of unexpected incomingcommunication intention is immediate. This paper proposes the efficienthandling of interruptions from the user modeling perspective.We proposea mechanism to build user preferences that specify the level of interrupt-ibility during an activity, situation or event. The proposed mechanism isbuilt upon semantic technologies for dynamic and interoperability pur-poses

Between social awareness and productivity: Results of a survey about real-time microblogging

In April 2010, we conducted a survey towards 256 users of real-time microblogging platforms, mostly Twitter users, in order to analyze the usage of those platforms and evaluate the induced cognitive impact. In this article, after reporting and discussing the results of this survey, we identify opportunities for improvement towards reducing information overload and frequent disruptions. Then, we propose a novel approach for filtering status updates from real-time microblogging platforms, based on contextual relevance between their authors

Efficient Reachability Management With A Semantic User Profile Framework

International audienceThe possession of mobile devices with the ”always online”paradigm eased a lot our communication habits: contacting somebodyis becoming more and easier. A major drawback of this is the scenariowhen an important meeting is interrupted by an unexpected phone callfrom a friend. The need for an efficient control of unexpected incomingcommunication intention is immediate. This paper proposes the efficienthandling of interruptions from the user modeling perspective.We proposea mechanism to build user preferences that specify the level of interrupt-ibility during an activity, situation or event. The proposed mechanism isbuilt upon semantic technologies for dynamic and interoperability pur-poses

Efficient Reachability Management With A Semantic User Profile Framework

International audienceThe possession of mobile devices with the ”always online”paradigm eased a lot our communication habits: contacting somebodyis becoming more and easier. A major drawback of this is the scenariowhen an important meeting is interrupted by an unexpected phone callfrom a friend. The need for an efficient control of unexpected incomingcommunication intention is immediate. This paper proposes the efficienthandling of interruptions from the user modeling perspective.We proposea mechanism to build user preferences that specify the level of interrupt-ibility during an activity, situation or event. The proposed mechanism isbuilt upon semantic technologies for dynamic and interoperability pur-poses

Developing Compelling Social-Enabled Applications with Context-Based Social Interaction Analysis

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Bridging the Gap between the User's Digital and Physical Worlds with Compelling Real Life Social Applications

Nowadays, the majority of web sites and web-based applications encourage their users to engage in social interactions such as adding comments, expressing opinions or sharing content with their friends in social networking websites. Social activities involve basically: (i) users, (ii) user generated content -UGCthat users create and share and (iii) resources that are described with the created content. The logical structure of the underlying knowledge emerges as a set of links between the three aforementioned components. More concretely, a user generally annotates resources with different forms of user generated content, like social annotations, tags or links. As a consequence, huge amounts of shared social data are now available, which raises new challenges for information management and discovery. Each social interaction represents an opportunity to create valuable knowledge that can be further leveraged for added-value services (e.g. recommendation or prediction)

Servers, display devices, scrolling methods and methods of generating heatmaps

<p>Methods of generating heatmaps including receiving, at a first electronic device, first information associated with a first zone of a plurality of zones of a content item, determining at least one first concept related to the first information, receiving at least one target content characteristic, determining at least one second concept related to the at least one target content characteristic, and determining a first heat of the first zone based on the first and second concepts, the first heat representing a measure of similarity between the first and second concepts.</p