Personal Assistant
Motivation
Personal Assistant is a service to give tips to users. It learns user preferences with an analysis of user profiles and personal calendar; then it starts to give him different kinds of news such as traffic update, information about events that user could be interested in, etc.
Story Board
- Carlo usually goes to the cinema on Friday evening
- PA notices that on next Friday evening Carlo hasn't planned anything yet
- PA looks for upcoming events that will be on Friday evening
- PA suggests what movies there are on cinemas near Carlo's home with related informative resources (trailers, pictures, reviews)
- PA checks weather prediction and it founds that it will likely rain
- In addition to the list of movies, PA adds the movies that will be played on TV
- Carlo watches the list with options proposed by PA
- Carlo chooses to stay at home and watch a movie on TV
Kinds of data sources
- Maps (Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, etc.)
- Public Transportation (NaPTAN, NPTG, BBC public transport information, etc.)
- Weather (BBC, Yahoo! etc.)
Multimedia (?YouTube, Flickr, etc.)
- Travels (Yahoo! Travel etc.)
- Restaurants (Yahoo!Local, Beer Mapping, Cafè Spot etc.)
- Events (Yahoo! Upcoming, EVDB, etc.)
- Review sites (Revyu, ciao, etc.)
- Public Holidays
- Information about user (i.e. calendar, profiles, etc.)