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9.4.4.
Extension of the approach to other business domains
Having seen this first example, it is important to know whether our approach can
be extended to business domains other than public transport. In theory the answer is
yes, as from a sociological and anthropological point of view [UST 09] it always
seems possible, whatever the business domain concerned, to determine an attitude in
relation to the experience
vis-à-vis
time. For example, time can be used to acquire
new skills, collect information, create new documents or for personal needs. In fact,
the real problem resides in the determination of categories that can be associated
with the time experience of the user in the business domain concerned. Regarding
the Viatic.Mobilité project, this can be carried out via sociological or
anthropological studies in the field. As the categories defined in each business
domain have a certain probability of being different, the question that arises is how
to link them together? This is a question that is all the more critical as a user can use
applications belonging to various different business domains at the same time.
To answer this question, we propose using semantic links between the categories
of the different business domains considered. As it is not always possible to
envisage direct links between two categories of two different business domains, we
propose using weightings between 0 and 1 for each link. This enables semantic
distances between the categories of the two business domains considered to be
defined. Table 9.2 gives an example of a definition of this type of relationship
between two different business domains.
Category of travel time use
Beaver
Owl
Peacock
Marmot
Relax
0.0
0.1
0.3
0.8
Categories of the user's
experience in relation
to time in the field of
journeys for pleasure
(non professional
journeys according
to [ARS 09])
Meet people/visit
friends or family
0.1
0.3
0.8
0.1
Discover new things
0.1
0.5
0.4
0.1
Do stress relieving
activities
0.0
0.2
0.6
0.0
Shopping
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.0
Table 9.2.
Definition of semantic links on the categories of user experience in relation
to time for two different business domains (coefficients not validated
experimentally in the current state of our works)
Due to a shortage of time, we have not yet had the time to implement this type of
semantic approach between two business domains via experiments. That being said,
this semantic approach was validated, from the point of view of its global principle,
