iCITY is a social mobile guide, web-based, accessible both via desktop and mobile devices, that exploits Semantic Web technologies in a Web 2.0 vision in order to provide cultural events of the city of Torino in a personalized and adaptive way.

The main goal of the iCITY project is to show i) how navigation and information retrieval in ubiquitous environment may be improved using Web 2.0 principles, in particular by means of social tagging; ii) the advantages of social networks and users’ collective knowledge for providing accurate and trustworthy information.

Full project description (only in italian)

Click here to see iCity Demo (available only in italian)

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Partners

Università di TorinoComputer Science DepartmentCSP
Smart LabComune di Torino

People

Francesca Carmagnola, Federica Cena, Luca Console, Omar Cortassa, Cristina Gena, Anna Goy, Ilaria Torre, Ilaria Lombardi,

Co-funding

PRIN/COFIN 2005

 Wiki (iCITYpedia)

Related Projects

iDYNamicTV
(developed with TILab)

OnToRule Web
(developed by Pietro Pavese)

Services

Server Config