SAPI

The SAPI Project

To pursue adaptability in the broadest sense, a large part of the project includes the study of models, methodologies and techniques based on knowledge that enables the development of advanced solutions to provide content and services capable of offering greater performance in terms of existing solutions regarding adaptability, accessibility, flexibility, multi-methodologies and autonomy from the device. We want to adapt the provision of content and services on the basis of different parameters, including:

the user profile that characterises those in question, the preferences, objectives, etc. are explicit (directly specified by the user) or implicit (deduced by the system), in the long term (relating to user history) or short term (relating to current interaction sessions);
the capability of the user in terms of ability to perform actions in a manner considered normal for a human being by particularly focusing on visual pathology specifications (for example short-sightedness, colour blindness, blindness, etc.);
the access device with all the hardware and software specifications that characterise it (in terms of screen dimensions, memory quantity, operating system, etc.) while also considering specific devices for disabled people (for example enlarger, Braille readers, etc.);
the interface channel, or rather the communication network that connects the access device with the system in terms of capacity, reliability, safety, availability, costs, etc.
the environmental characteristics or rather the characteristics of the physical location in which the user-system interaction occurs (from home, on the road, a self-service station) in relation to light, noise and localisation parameters, etc. while considering difficult environmental conditions.

The SAPI project wants to study the possibility of extending the adaptive capacity of information content, starting with research activities with an approach based on knowledge. New products must be studied and planned for this project, both in relation to content, with semantic enrichment, and services, which require a formal description of the interaction procedures. In this way, we aim to broaden existing studies on intelligent content and on adaptive and intelligent services.

Intelligent services and content can therefore react in a different manner based on the user that interacts (considering his or her profile and abilities) and the interaction context (therein including the access device, the interface channel and the environmental characteristics). To achieve this result, the project includes the definition of models that formally describe the main entities involved in the customisation phase: the user, the context and the domain.