| uciad |
Description |
UCIAD (User Centric Integration of Activity Data) is a JISC-funded project addressing
the integration of activity data spread across various systems in an organization,
and exploring how this integration can both benefit users and improve transparency
in an organization.
Both research and commercial developments in the area of user activity data analysis
have until now mostly focused on logging user visits to specific websites and systems,
primarily in order to support recommendation, or to gather feedback data from users.
However, data concerning a single user are generally fragmented across many different
systems and logs, from website access logs to search data in different departments
and as a result organizations typically are not able to maintain an integrated overview
of the various activities of a given user, thus affecting their ability to provide
optimal service to their users. Hence, a key tenet of the UCIAD project is that developing
a coherent picture of the interactions between the user and the organization would
be beneficial both to an organization and to its users.
The project, led and managed by Mathieu d'Aquin, will contribute to the current strand
of research in KMi, which focuses on the use of semantic technologies to support online
personal information management. The solutions developed in the project will be tested
on a number of Open University systems, in collaboration with the Open University's
communication services. |
