Human Factors and the Semantic Web (1st Workshop)

12/08/2008 - 00:00
12/11/2008 - 23:59
Focuses on human factor issues for the semantic web, particularly challenges faced by general users

The world-wide-web (www)  is being envisioned and designed as a 'semantic network', to the point that we refer to it as 'semantic web', where semantics refers to the relationship between the meaning  of its nodes and arcs.  To date, many of the functional expectations of  the SW are yet to be fulfilled (large scale deployments, ability to extract meaning from context, to infer relationships etc).

Most of SW development is taking shape however, without enough considerations for 'human factors', and currently there is an urge for developing high level, knowledge management capabilities to leverage the potential of web based technologies, and semantic networks, that can be used by 'people' irrespective of their technical abilities

Goals of this workshop:

  • To identify and bring to the attention of the research community the human factors in semantic web technology at large, and some of the challenges faced by general users to come to terms with the semantic web

  • To identify differences in behaviour and perception of semantic web technologies  arising from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds

Event Location: 
Thailand
Event Website(s): 
Workshop Home Page
Contact Name: 
Paola Di Maio
Contact Email: 
paola.nospam.dimaio@gmail.com
Posted October 7th, 2008 by graybeal
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