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Enabling Mobile Access to Distributed Recycling Knowledge

Authors:
Sönke Knoch
Alexander Kröner

Keywords: Sustainability; decision support; mobile computing; case study

Abstract:
From the consumer perspective, classifying a product regarding its environmental impact is a difficult task because relevant knowledge is usually not only diverse, but also distributed over several information sources. In this work, an analysis of mobile “green” applications formed the basis of a mobile application, which aims at providing all recycling-related information in-situ. Its domain model integrates recycling knowledge from several information sources and is capable of decomposing a product into its elementary parts. The mobile application enables the user to initiate interaction with this model over three different ways of describing a product. Beside insights concerning information access and user interaction, a first evaluation of the prototype indicates that the employed fused domain model may outperform results achieved with a traditional approach to web-based information search concerning recycling information.

Pages: 30 to 37

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: September 29, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4278

ISBN: 978-1-61208-289-9

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from September 29, 2013 to October 3, 2013