Personalized And Situation-Aware Recommendations For Runners

The project uService investigates the transformation of a mobile user into a service super prosumer, i.e., a producer, provider and consumer of services at the same time. The goal is to develop a platform which enables a user to create, discover and consume mobile services anywhere and at any time on the mobile device. uRun is an application scenario of the project in the field of mobile health and fitness. The uRun framework provides a mobile assistance system particularly for runners, which combines Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technologies and personalized and situation-aware recommendation mechanisms. The ability to create individual and mobile health and fitness services as well as a personalized and situation-aware assistance system based on a semantic knowledge base are considered to provide an edge over existing consumer-centric health care systems. In this article, we describe the recommendation mechanism and the incorporation of semantic knowledge for the uService platform and the uRun framework

uService – Enabling user-driven fitness services on-the-go

User-centric developments are on the move, both in business and information technology. Especially in the mobileenvironment, personalization is of great importance. The concept of the mobile service super prosumer is core of the researchcarried out in the project uService. It aims at providing a platform for the creation, discovery and consumption of mobileservices on-the-go. Tailoring fitness applications for mobile phones to the respective needs of patients and hobby runners isthe main goal of uService’s application scenario uRun. This use case enables hobby runners to create personalized, contextawareversions of mobile services tailored to their specific personal preferences, health conditions and training plans. Basedon these features, a semantic knowledge base allows for the context-aware search and recommendations for service creation,discovery and usage. Compared to traditional consumer-centric health care systems, the depicted approach will be morepersonalized and context-aware and will empower physicians and personal trainers to act more timely than before