A Multi-Temporal Context-aware System for Competences Management

Abstract

The evolution of computing technology and wireless networks has contributed to the miniaturization of mobile devices and their increase in power, providing services anywhere and anytime. In this scenario, applications have considered the user's contexts to make decisions (Context Awareness). Context-aware applications have enabled new opportunities in different areas, for example, education, games and entertainment, commerce, and competence management. In this article, we present MultCComp, a multi-temporal context-aware system for competences management. The main system contribution is to take advantage of the workers' present and past contexts to help them to develop their competences. We define as multi-temporal context awareness the joint use of workers' present and past contexts to assist them in the development of their competences. We developed a prototype and conducted two experiments with it in an evaluation environment. The first experiment aimed to demonstrate the system functionalities. It consisted of two evaluation scenarios that were followed by two users. The second experiment focused on evaluating the acceptance of the system. It comprised a scenario that was followed by 21 users, who filled out a questionnaire at the end of the test.

Modelo Semântico e Pedagógico de Tutoria para Gestão Pessoal da Carreira: Análise e Resultados Preliminares

“…O principal resultado obtido é mostrar que um modelo competências baseado em Conhecimentos, Habilidades e Atitudes, pode ser construído através de agentes cognitivos, baseados na arquitetura BDI (do inglês Beliefs -DesiresIntentions). O trabalho (Rosa et al 2015) apresenta o sistema MultCComp que tira proveito de contextos presentes e contextos anteriores para ajudar trabalhadores na melhoria de suas competências. Tais contextos são usados para extrair informações que permitem a detecção automática dos avanços nas competências.…”

“…Neste contexto, a literatura mais recente não se foca apenas na organização como o objeto principal da pesquisa (Rosa et al, 2015), mas torna cada vez mais saliente o papel do indivíduo, como um ator que tem a necessidade de saber como conduzir de forma eficaz sua própria carreira (King, 2001;King, 2004;Pinto 2010). No ambiente profissional e econômico atual, a capacidade de gerir sua própria carreira e de estar preparado para aprender novas competências e habilidades durante toda a vida profissional (King, 2001), se tornaram importantes diferenciais.…”

Towards disappearing user interfaces for ubiquitous computing: human enhancement from sixth sense to super senses

“…Dey et al (2001) defined Context a decade ago as ''any information that characterises the situation of entities'' and laid down the groundwork for smart mobile computing devices that can accurately aware and astutely react based on the corresponding context information. Collection of past and present contexts provides cues for making immediate decisions (da Rosa et al 2015) and predicts future actions as well (da Rosa et al 2016).…”

Multi-Temporal Aspects on Contextual Variability Modeling

“…Also, in 2001, Dey, Abowd and Salber [2001] proposed their classical definition of Context. Currently, contextaware systems have been used in a diverse range of knowledge areas, such as, health [Vianna et al 2014] [Vianna et al 2019], well-being [Vianna and Barbosa 2017], competence management [Rosa et al 2015], learning [Wagner et al 2014] [Larentis et al 2019], commerce , accessibility [Barbosa et al 2018] and agriculture [Souza et al 2019].…”