Personalization of Content in Virtual Exhibitions

Presentation of content is an important aspect of today’s virtual reality applications, especially in domains such as virtual exhibitions. The large amount and variety of exhibits in such applications raise a need for adaptation and personalization of the environment. This paper presents a content personalization framework for Virtual Exhibitions, which is based on a semantic description of content and on information implicitly collected about the users through their interaction. The proposed framework uses stereotypes to initialize user models, adapts user profiles dynamically and clusters users into interest groups. A 3D virtual museum has been implemented as a case study, and an evaluation has been conducted.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SAMT
• Authors: Bill Bonis, John Stamos, Spyros Vosinakis, Ioannis Andreou, Themis Panayiotopoulos
• Keywords: Content Personalization Framework, SAMT 2007, Today’s Virtual Reality, Virtual Exhibitions