Co-funded by the European Union
Semantic CMS Community
Designing Interactive Knowledge-supported Ubiquitous Information Systems
Results from theIKS AmI Case
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Introduction of Content Management
Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
Storing and Accessing Semantic Data
Knowledge Interaction and Presentation
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Semantic Lifting
Designing Interactive Ubiquitous IS
Requirements Engineering for Semantic CMS
Designing Semantic CMS
Semantifying your CMS
Part I: Foundations
Part II: Semantic Content Management
Part III: Methodologies
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Situational Design Method for Information Systems (SiDIS)
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Identification of Problem and
Needs
Design of Solution based on Scenarios,
Use cases, Requirements
etc.
Development of Solution
Evaluation of Solution and
Specification of Design Theory
It’s Thursday morning. Anna get site-specific weather information when she is brushing her teeth in the bathroom.
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SiDIS Task 4: Evaluation of diagrammatic CMs
Will services represented in Pre-Artifacts be accepted by future users?
Pre-Artifacts are evaluated to generate preliminary implications regarding user acceptance
Usage of mock-ups at early stage of design process Focus on information objects delivered by services that are
represented in Pre-Artifacts
Outcome: Preliminary implications for design of IS regarding user acceptance
Involved stakeholders: Potential early adopters of IS, domain experts
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Application of SiDIS Task 4 in IKS
111 potential early adopters participated in evaluation
Subjects came from 3 countries in Europe: Germany, Switzerland and Turkey
Pre-Artifacts were presented with the help of a mock-up, i.e. a midget bathroomwith dolls, and a slideshow that exemplifiedthe information delivered by services
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After presentation of situations covered by Pre-Artifacts, participants had to rate the relevant services within questionnaire
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Rank Situation Service Intention to Use Perceived FitNo Name Mean SD Mean SD
1. 6 4 Personalized Music Service
6.28*** 0.87 6.07***
1.13
2. 1 1 Weather Information Service
5.64*** 1.54 4.87***
1.69
3. 6 5 Personalized News Collage Service
5.11*** 1.94 4.84***
1.83
4. 1 2 Event Recommendation Service
4.65*** 1.69 4.12 1.65
5. 11 6 Adaptive News Service 4.17 1.85 3.88 1.82
6. 1 3 Ticket Order Service 3.82 1.73 3.47** 1.77
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Identification of Problem and
Needs
Design of Solution based on Scenarios,
Use cases, Requirements
etc.
Development of Solution
Evaluation of Solution and
Specification of Design Theory
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SiDIS Task 5: Derivation of formal propositional CMs
How can diagrammatic representations of situations be processed by the future system?
Translation of Pre-Artifacts into propositional CMs Manual, automatic or semi-automatic translation possible Creation of specifications for later system designs (Wand
et al., 1995) and machine-processable CMs that can be verified (Bera et al., 2010)
Outcome: Library of formalized design patterns Involved stakeholders: Knowledge engineers
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SiDIS Task 5:Use of Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Use of computational ontologies for conceptual modeling by means of a pattern-based approach (Clark et al., 2000, Gangemi, 2005)
Pros Web Ontology Language (OWL) is implementable, which means
OWL ontologies are machine-readable, and thus computational. OWL constructs are independent, i.e. classes can exist
independent of instances or properties and properties are independent of classes.
Verification: OWL allows inferences and automated reasoning support.
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SiDIS Task 5: Approach – Use of Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Cons no clear rules how to map from domain information as
represented by Pre-Artifacts to OWL constructs similar to the intended propositional CMs
How to generate propositional CM based on propositional Pre-Artifact Patterns?
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SiDIS Task 5:Approach of Generating Propositional CM
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Creation of Pre-Artifact Model = “vocabulary”of Pre-Artifact patterns (basic entities and relations of AISM)
Import of Pre-Artifact Model by each pattern ontology
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SiDIS Task 5:Approach of Generating Propositional CM
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Specified object properties by
ServiceInteraction, RoleInteraction and RoleUsesIO pattern
Each pattern imports Pre-Artifact Model Specification of pattern-specific object
properties through inheritance structures Definition of sub properties of generic object
properties imported from the model super-properties and concepts of Pre-
Artifact Model remain unchanged
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Clear assignments of object properties to specific patterns
Support by modeling guidelines - canalization of modeling options
Incremental modeling of propositional CM by importing patterns step by step according to the requirements of the Pre-Artifact
Super properties of Pre-Artifact Model filled automatically
Sub properties by three patterns regarding individual of type InterfaceService: PersonalizedWeatherService
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Translation of 17 Pre-Artifacts into propositional CMs OWL files
Modeling in 5 steps similar to procedure of defining Pre-Artifacts
Exemplary modeling of aforementioned Pre-Artifact It's Thursday morning. I get site-specific weather
information when I am brushing my teeth in the bathroom.
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Generating empty OWL file Required Pre-Artifact Patterns can be imported by their URL
Start of modeling according to 5 steps Import of RoleInteraction Pattern
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Instantiation of relevant concepts of pattern Instances of Role: User, PersonalizedWeatherAssistant Instance of R-Interaction to represent interaction between
roles
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Pattern offers specific object properties “initiatesR_ Interaction” and “finalizesR_Interaction” that inherit from super-properties
<owl:ObjectProperty rdf:about="http://im.dm.hs-furtwangen.de/ontologies/preartifacts/2010/RoleInteraction# initiatesR_Interaction">
<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://im.dm.hs-furtwangen.de/ontologies/ami-case/preartifacts/PA-Model.owl#Role"/>
<rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://im.dm.hs-furtwangen.de/ontologies/ami-case/preartifacts/PA-Model.owl#R_Interaction"/>
<rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="http://im.dm.hs-furtwangen.de/ontologies/ami-case/preartifacts/PA-Model.owl#initiatesInteraction"/></owl:ObjectProperty>[…]<Model:Role rdf:about=" http://im.dm.hs-PA1A.owl#PersonalizedWeatherAssistant">
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing"/><RoleInteraction:initiatesR_Interaction rdf:resource="http://im.dm.hs-
furtwangen.de/ontologies/preartifacts/2010/RoleInteraction#R_Interaction1"/></Model:Role>
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Super properties of Pre-Artifact Model are filled automatically Further imports of Pre-Artifact Patterns Role Uses IO and Service
Interaction Final representation of interface service Personalized
WeatherService:
<Model:InterfaceService rdf:about="#PersonalizedWeatherService"><rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing"/><RoleUsesIO:supportsCreation rdf:resource="#Creation_1"/><RoleUsesIO:interfaceServiceTakesRole
rdf:resource="#PersonalizedWeatherAssistant"/><RoleInteraction:supportsR_Interaction rdf:resource="#R_Interaction1"/><ServiceInteraction:finalizesS_Interaction
rdf:resource="#S_Interaction_3"/><ServiceInteraction:finalizesS_Interaction
rdf:resource="#S_Interaction_4"/></Model:InterfaceService>
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Identification of Problem and
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Design of Solution based on Scenarios,
Use cases, Requirements
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Development of Solution
Evaluation of Solution and
Specification of Design Theory
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How does the architecture of the future system look like?
Formalization of system design based on library of design patterns analysis of layers of propositional CMs
Service System and Social System Which services shall be provided by the intended system? Which internal services need to deliver information objects? Which information objects are required by each internal service Which interface services take a role in an interaction with the
user? Which interface services are used by users to interact? Which service interactions take place?
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Information Sphere Which information objects have to be requested from external services? Which information objects have to be created by the system itself? How about format and storage of information objects (data
infrastructure)?
Physical Object System How will the interaction of user and system be realized? How will information objects be presented? How is the I/O behavior of the system? Does the system need information about the available physical objects?
Outcome: Specification of system design Involved stakeholders: Computer scientists
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SiDIS Task 6:Approach of setting up the System Architecture
Performing the following steps, based on the answers to the questions on the prior slides: Realization of Service System as independent software modules,
which perform the required functionalities Realization of software modules for the User Interaction based on
the requirements of the Social System Information Objects stored as Knowledge Models for the
representation to the user in the appropriate situations Physical Object System realized by several sensing,
interpretation and output modules
Encapsulation of functionalities required for the management of the UIS in additional software modules
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Application of SiDIS Task 6 in IKS:Modules of Designed System in High-Level Logical Architecture
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Application of SiDIS Task 6 in IKS:Conjoint Modules of IKS Semantic CMS and AmI Case System
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IKS Semantic CMSArchitecture
AmI Case SystemLogical Architecture
The blue marked modules indicate modules that exist in both architectures
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Identification of Problem and
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Design of Solution based on Scenarios,
Use cases, Requirements
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Development of Solution
Evaluation of Solution and
Specification of Design Theory
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SiDIS Task 7:Implementation of Formalized System Design
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Coding!
Formalized system design is transformed into machine-processible code modules in system design realized as software components
Use of propositional CMs as knowledge models for the physical situation management
Information Objects stored as knowledge models for the interaction with the user
UIS code has to be linked with hardware components integrated in the physical environment
Outcome: Prototype of information system Involved stakeholders: Computer scientists
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Context Ontology Network as knowledge representation of Information Objects Propositional CMs and Current Situation representation as knowledge
representation for the evaluation of the appropriate situation in the UIS Determination of current and upcoming situation based on semantic rule sets
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Application of SiDIS Task 7 in IKS:IKS Stack Components IKS VIE^2:
Used on the User Interaction layer to enable the user to not only view content items in the bathroom, but also browse semantically referenced resources, i.e. information about actors or the director in case of movie event suggestions
Apache Stanbol Entity Hub,Apache Stanbol CMS Adapter,Apache Stanbol Reengineer and Apache Stanbol Rules:
Used in the Knowledge Access, Content Retrieval & Knowledge Extraction Pipeline and Rules & Reasoning layers to retrieve contents from external content and knowledge sources, lift them on a semantic level and refactor them to be represented as AmI ODPs
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Apache Stanbol Enhancer:
Used in Content Retrieval & Knowledge Extraction Pipeline and Rules & Reasoning to enable the system to prepare the semantic enhanced contents required by VIE^2
Apache Stanbol Ontology Manager:
Used on the Knowledge Repository layer to enable the persistent storage and browsing of knowledge representations by the system or the user by using the Store sub component; the OntoNet sub component is also implicitly used by other components for reasoning and refactoring issues
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Implementation according to OSGi standard 7 IKS Stack/Apache Stanbol components could be re-used for the
realization of the UIS 4 developer teams from Turkey, Italy and Germany • 500 kg of furniture
• 15 sqm bathroom• 5x3 meter walls• 50 liter wall paint• 18 sqm floor• 3 microphones• 2 sound systems• 2 projectors & 3 sqm
projection foil• 1 touch screen• 1 camera• 1 MS Kinect• 2 sensor boards with 4
touch- & 6 distance sensors
• 2 PCs, 1 Mac Mini• app. 100 meter of cable
…
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Identification of Problem and
Needs
Design of Solution based on Scenarios,
Use cases, Requirements
etc.
Development of Solution
Evaluation of Solution and
Specification of Design Theory
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SiDIS Task 8: Evaluation of solution
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Does the prototype fit to the natural incentives and motivation of potential end users?
IS is evaluated by traditional empirical studies laboratory experiments field experiments
Outcome: feedback for earlier design phases laboratory experiments: understanding of adoption (ease of use,
utility, risk, task-technology fit, etc.), purchase intentions field experiments: usage behavior, social influence, behavioral
change Involved stakeholders: Computer scientists, end users
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55 subjects have evaluated 6 services in a lab experiment with constructs from Technology Acceptance research (e.g., Davis 1989)
Subjects had to play through the 3 Situations from SiDIS Task 4
IK point Mirror
• Weather Information Service• Event Recommendation Service• Ticket Order Service• Personalized News Collage Service• Adaptive News Service
IK point eScreen
IK point Shower
• Personalized Music Service• Personalized News Collage Service• Adaptive News Service
Interaction Border(touch-sensitive)
• Personalized News Collage Service• Adaptive News Service
Array microphoneArray microphone
Array microphoneSpeaker
SpeakerDistance sensorDistance sensor
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Mean values, standard deviation (in parentheses) and results of one-sample t-tests are shown below; Significance: * = p < .05 / ** = p < .01 / *** = p < .001
Results: Personalized Music Service is ranked highest
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Results from Interviews:
The widgets on the touchscreen are distracting. The mirror as such should be the
“main functionality” in the bathroom. Thus the content should be placed more in
the periphery (23)
There was no design or concept behind the content presentation, e.g., the widgets
on the touchscreen seemed to be positioned without any layout in mind; the IKS
logo should be smaller and more semi-transparent to reduce distraction (10)
Weather information was too lean (e.g., no information about rain probability,
moisture, forecast, morning, noon, afternoon, etc.) (9)
The positioning of the widgets on the touchscreen should be more flexible (9)
Size of the projection on the wall screen was too small (7)
More information about price and category of when ordering a ticket (6)
Note: the number in parentheses reflects the number of subjects that gave this feedback
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Wrap-up
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Design Method for interactive knowledge-supported Ubiquitous Information Systems Situational Design Method for Information System (SiDIS)
Consists of 4 phases covering 9 tasks according to Design Method pattern (Hevner et al., 2004; March & Smith, 1995; Pfeffers et al., 2006; Rossi & Sein, 2003; Kuechler & Vaishnavi, 2008)
Bases on 3 types of Conceptual Models (CMs): Narrative CMs of situations Diagrammatic CMs (Pre-Artifacts) Propositional CMs
Closing gap between qualitative requirements (cf. narratives) and formal, machine-processable structures (cf. propositional CMs)
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Literature on SiDIS
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