Real World User Model: Evolution of User Modeling Triggered by Advances in Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing

Over the last few years, user modeling scenery is changing. With the recent advancements in ubiquitous and wearables technologies, the amount and type of data that can be gathered about users and used to build user models is expanding. User Model can now be enriched with data regarding different aspects of people’s everyday lives. All these changes bring forth new research questions about the kinds of services which could be provided, the ways...