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User-Adapted Web of Things for Accessibility

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Ilaria Torre and

Ilknur CelikAuthors Info & Claims

HT '15: Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media

August 2015

Pages 341 - 344

https://doi.org/10.1145/2700171.2804454

Published: 24 August 2015 Publication History

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This paper describes a new wave of the Web that is the useradapted Web of Things. This is a new step in the evolution of the Web of Things and of adaptive web-based systems. The current proposals for the Web of Things focus on the augmentation of the physical objects in order to provide enhanced services. However, in our view, the Web of Things can also be a means to make physical objects accessible or more usable for people with special needs by exploiting adaptive and semantic techniques. The architecture presented in the paper describes the specific modules and components at the basis of this approach.

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De Santo AHolzer ABernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)Interacting with Linked Data: A Survey from the SIGCHI PerspectiveExtended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3334480.3382909(1-12)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2020
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HT '15: Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media

August 2015

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DOI:10.1145/2700171

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Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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Laaychi ATanana MLazaar S(2022)Security issues of the Web of Things: challenges and solutionsE3S Web of Conferences10.1051/e3sconf/202235101013351(01013)Online publication date: 24-May-2022
https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202235101013
De Santo AHolzer ABernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)Interacting with Linked Data: A Survey from the SIGCHI PerspectiveExtended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3334480.3382909(1-12)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3334480.3382909
Cena FRapp ATorre I(2019)Internet of Things: An Opportunity for Advancing Universal AccessWeb Accessibility10.1007/978-1-4471-7440-0_39(777-790)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7440-0_39
Torre ICelik I(2016)A model for adaptive accessibility of everyday objects in smart cities2016 IEEE 27th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)10.1109/PIMRC.2016.7794583(1-6)Online publication date: Sep-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2016.7794583

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