ACCESIBILITIC ontology - version 3

Accessibility and Activity-Centered Design for ICT Users: ACCESIBILITIC Ontology

ABSTRACT 

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are involved in daily human activities. Accessibility guarantees that individuals with different abilities interact with ICTs. User profile models are explicit representation of characteristics of an individual and are used to reason about what users need, they are implemented through ontologies. After identifying common and different aspects among important ontologies in the domain of Accessibility and e-inclusion, we designed and implemented ACCESIBILITIC ontology applying NeOn methodology, specifically by reusing and reengineering these ontologies. The strengths of our model include the user ability to develop a high variety of capabilities despite his/her disabilities, support for inference processes, and providing answers to several Competency Questions. ACCESIBILITIC allows representing suitable technical support based on user capabilities when interacting with ICTs. Besides, some activities in day-to-day life are inferred according to user capabilities, allowing support for Activity-Centered Design (ACD).