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Title:
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TOWARDS AN ONTOLOGY-BASED COMMUNITY OF AGENTS FOR PERSONALISATION OF SERVICES FOR DISABLED STUDENTS |
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Author(s):
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Julius T. Nganji, Mike Brayshaw |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-52-6 |
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Editors:
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Katherine Blashki |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Personalisation, services, higher education, disabled students, ADOOLES, ontology, society of agents. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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193 |
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Last Page:
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200 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Disability legislations such as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, 2005 and Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 call on service providers to make reasonable adjustments and reasonable accommodation respectively to their services in order to accommodate the needs of disabled people. Higher education institutions as service providers can respond through their services. Nevertheless, there is an increasing challenge in using digital media to deliver services due to the numerous problems associated with inaccessibility of some online systems with assistive/adaptive technologies. Personalisation is a solution to such problems as it provides content to students based on their needs. However, very little of such personalisation has been targeted towards disabled students and hence, this paper proposes an ontology approach for a semantic web community of agents that personalises services to disabled students in higher education. We present the architecture of such an agency, including a disability-aware semantic web agency development methodology and also present the ADOOLES ontology employed for such personalisation. |
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