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Taking Printed Books into Internet of Things

Authors:
Harri Ketamo

Keywords: smartphones; mobile internet; books; libraries; cloud computing

Abstract:
The aim of this paper is to describe a development process for bookAI, a system that takes printed books into the Internet of Things by applying smartphones, different identification methods, mobile internet, and cloud computing. BookAI connects the books into the Internet with NFC, RFID or barcode identifiers that are read by smart phones. The challenge in the book identification is recognizing the object from various coding sets and connect it to the available metadata and content: In bookstores the EAN-13 barcodes are used, while in libraries there are several RFID standards as well as several barcode formats in use. Metadata and available digital content, related to the physical object, are read from different sources. The received data is not in a structured format, which means there are incomplete records and missing data that makes challenges for further computing. BookAI applies semantic computing to build a network of detailed relations between the books and personal reading interests. The personal reading interests are recorded as self-evaluations of the users, so bookAI requires several evaluations before it can make personalized suggestions. After the system has learned the user preferences, it enables searching interesting books from the libraries, bookstores or even from private book shelfs by optimizing the personal content and context map taught by the user. One of the challenges, in designing and end-user product, is user interface. The first version of the bookAI was evaluated complex to use, so the second revision is built based on end-user feedback. Computationally built semantics and ontologies save remarkably time when modeling big domains or big data like library collections. The future research is focusing in building methods to collect more complete datasets about books as well as designing the user experience of the system.

Pages: 5 to 12

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: November 15, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-440-4

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 15, 2015 to November 20, 2015