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A Semantic Reasoning Engine for Lifestyle Profiling in Support of Personalised Coaching

Authors:
Sara Mikolajczak
Tom Ruette
Elena Tsiporkova
Milena Angelova
Veselka Boeva

Keywords: coachee profile; ontology; Semantic Web; coachee modeling; Jena rules; protégé

Abstract:
The aim of this research is to develop a sound methodology enabling the profiling of coachees that are being supported by a lifestyle coach. This profiling is to be useful for the professional coaches to personalize their approach for helping people acquire and maintain a healthier lifestyle. For the coachee profiling, the known relevant factors for a healthy lifestyle are gathered, e.g., sleep duration and activity level. Based on coachee input in a questionnaire, to be filled in with support of the coach, a qualitative profile is generated in terms of food and liquids consumption, physical activity, personality and cardiovascular risk. The modeling and reasoning environment is realized with semantic technologies. We find that semantic technology is an efficient technology for performing user profiling in a digital coaching context.

Pages: 79 to 83

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: July 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4553

ISBN: 978-1-61208-424-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 19, 2015 to July 24, 2015