Attention Metadata: Collection and Management

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Attention Metadata Collection and Management

• Jehad Najjar, Erik Duval
• HMDB Research Group, Computer Science Department,
  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Jehad.Najjar, Erik.Duval_at_cs.kuleuven.be
• Martin Wolpers, L3S Research Center, Hannover,
  Germany
• Wolpers_at_l3s.de

http//ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/empirical/attention.
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Attention Metadata
Music title Context Artist
URL Time spend Annotations
Title Graphics Keywords
ContextDurationContent
Content Search terms Upload
XFN Names Relations
Participants Context Relations
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Attention Metadata and Logs

• Attention Metadata
• Data about the cross relation between users and
  content
• Detailed data
• User
• Application
• Context
• Tags
• Ratings
• Annotations (descriptions)
• Relations / Social networks
• Content
• Duration
• Types of user tasks
• Collected from different applications and services

• Logs
• One essential source for Attention Data
• Not enough to express user attention with the
  content
• Timestap
• Title
• url
• System Specification
• Services
• Annotation Service (Flickr, Slogger, )
• Communication Service (email, chat, )

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Contextualized Attention Metadataschema (CAMs)
Full version / online

• Based on attention XML schema
• Generic and works a cross system boundaries

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CAMs Management
My attention FireFox
Attention Repository
Browser
My attention PowerPoint
Power Point
Attention Service
My attention Moodle
LMS
My attention SILO
LOR
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Whats Next

• Build large attention repository
• Build APIs that enable access to attention
  repository
• Recommender systems
• User modeling services
• Usage Mining services
• others