MACC'97 Session: Mobile Agent and its Application
We describe the method of supporting consumers in mobile environment. There are four steps of handling information in consumer behavior; collecting, culling, selecting and doing the plan. It is required to support each step by using information on the network and software agent. We introduce our two experimental services of consumer support; Mobile Info Search (MIS) and Action Navigator (A.Navi). MIS is the location oriented information search system for supporting collecting or doing phase. It provides information or maps around the place where the mobile user is now. A.Navi is the recommender system that supports culling or selecting phase using other people's recommendation or interests. We describe the method of choice support used MIS and A.Navi. Several experimental results are also reported.
Software Agent, Location Oriented Information Search, Recommender Systems
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