Smart Personal Assistant
The Smart Personal Assistant (SPA), a highly innovative Web-based service suite, integrates state-of-the-art technology from the areas of Semantic Web and Web 2.0 on a social, technical, and economical level. A novel user interaction paradigm based on universal drag & drop technology combined with a generic framework for a semantic interconnection allows the user to aggregate different services and data at runtime.
The SPA has been realized as a prototype showcasing novel agent-based services in the entertainment domain. These services allow users to plan and carry out various recreational activities in large cities throughout Germany. Services for the Berlin metropolitan area are available via www.SmartAssistantSolutions.de/SPA.
Overview
The greatest accomplishment of the Smart Personal Assistant is the fusion of technology from the areas of Semantic Web and Web 2.0, combined with a seamless integration of the World Wide Web (WWW), resulting in the convergence of Intranet and Internet data and services. The SPA is capable of recognizing the semantic content of external data such as telephone numbers, addresses or hyperlinks at runtime, and thus supports combining this data with all internal services and data. Users accessing the SPA experience a highly simplified service interaction which allows them to use the provided services in various ways by dynamically integrating separate services and data.
As an exemplary scenario, consider a user dragging a visually enhanced telephone number from a Web page onto the SPA Communication Center. Based on the user's current context, the optimal communication channel (PSTN, GSM, VoIP, email or instant messaging) is determined and the respective connection is established. By realizing these concepts the SPA facilitates a novel convergent Web-based service usage which allows the combination of »everything with everything«. Thus, the user may aggregate different services and data at runtime in an intuitive manner.
In addition to supporting the convergence of Intranet and Internet, the SPA as a generic framework may also be adapted easily to various domains such as home, office, hotel or education. Furthermore, the SPA provides an intelligent session management mechanism which allows the user to interrupt the service interaction at any point and resume the interrupted interaction at a later point in time, even on a different device or in a different communication network (Seamless Mobility). Finally, the SPA features multi-modal user interfaces allowing the user to split up the service usage into separate communication channels, such as voice interaction and interaction via graphical user interfaces, and subsequently access the services simultaneously on separate devices, such as a mobile device and an HD-enabled television.
The Smart Personal Assistant (SPA), a highly innovative Web-based service suite, integrates state-of-the-art technology from the areas of Semantic Web and Web 2.0 on a social, technical, and economical level. A novel user interaction paradigm based on universal drag & drop technology combined with a generic framework for a semantic interconnection allows the user to aggregate different services and data at runtime.
The SPA has been realized as a prototype showcasing novel agent-based services in the entertainment domain. These services allow users to plan and carry out various recreational activities in large cities throughout Germany. Services for the Berlin metropolitan area are available via www.SmartAssistantSolutions.de/SPA.
Overview
The greatest accomplishment of the Smart Personal Assistant is the fusion of technology from the areas of Semantic Web and Web 2.0, combined with a seamless integration of the World Wide Web (WWW), resulting in the convergence of Intranet and Internet data and services. The SPA is capable of recognizing the semantic content of external data such as telephone numbers, addresses or hyperlinks at runtime, and thus supports combining this data with all internal services and data. Users accessing the SPA experience a highly simplified service interaction which allows them to use the provided services in various ways by dynamically integrating separate services and data.
As an exemplary scenario, consider a user dragging a visually enhanced telephone number from a Web page onto the SPA Communication Center. Based on the user's current context, the optimal communication channel (PSTN, GSM, VoIP, email or instant messaging) is determined and the respective connection is established. By realizing these concepts the SPA facilitates a novel convergent Web-based service usage which allows the combination of »everything with everything«. Thus, the user may aggregate different services and data at runtime in an intuitive manner.
In addition to supporting the convergence of Intranet and Internet, the SPA as a generic framework may also be adapted easily to various domains such as home, office, hotel or education. Furthermore, the SPA provides an intelligent session management mechanism which allows the user to interrupt the service interaction at any point and resume the interrupted interaction at a later point in time, even on a different device or in a different communication network (Seamless Mobility). Finally, the SPA features multi-modal user interfaces allowing the user to split up the service usage into separate communication channels, such as voice interaction and interaction via graphical user interfaces, and subsequently access the services simultaneously on separate devices, such as a mobile device and an HD-enabled television.
Winner 2008
Kategorie »Webportal Privatkunden«
Innovationspreis 2008
Category »Internet Service«
Winner 2008
Category »Digital Living«
Press Release
(in German only)
