Right after the I-KNOW conference, I attended the Kick-Off meeting of the AGENT-DYSL project, which is about Accommodative Intelligent Educational Environments for Dyslexic Learners and is funded by the European Commission within the eInclusion call (where AGENT-DYSL was ranked no. 1). The project is concerned with the development of new technologies and tools for the support of pupils with dyslexia (5-10% of all pupils suffer from dyslexia). Existing reading assistance software solutions lack important adaptive functions. The projects aims to integrate state-of-the-art technologies from the Semantic Web, speech and image processing in order to support user modeling (covering learning progress and emotional state) and adaptive user interfaces.

Our role in the project is the user context modeling and management as well as knowledge representation (especially for adaptation rules).

It was the third time I participated at the I-KNOW conference, and it was again an ideal place for networking and community building. Especially the Special Track on Integrating Working and Learning in Business (where we also presented a contribution on informal learning) was worth attending. There were interesting discussions on conceptualizing the field around the three activities working, learning and collaborating.

Interesting keynotes were given by Ronald Maier (on corporate knowledge portals) and Hermann Maurer (on the unpredictability of the future).

Andreas Schmidt, Christine Kunzmann:
Towards a Human Resource Development Ontology for Combining Competence Management and Technology-Enhanced Workplace Learning
In: Proceedings of OntoContent 2006 (in conjunction with OTM Federated Conferences 2006), Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 4278, 2006, pp. 1078-1087
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Christine Kunzmann, Andreas Schmidt:
Ontology-based Competence Management for Healthcare Training Planning: A Case Study
In: Proceedings of I-KNOW 2006, Graz, September 2006, Special Issue of the Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), ISSN 0948-695X, pp. 143-150
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