Virtual information assistants on mobile app to serve visitors at Helsinki Central Library Oodi
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HAMMAIS, Eero, KETAMO, Harri and KOIVISTO, Antti (2019) Virtual information assistants on mobile app to serve visitors at Helsinki Central Library Oodi. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2019 - Athens, Greece - Libraries: dialogue for change in Session 114 - Knowledge Management with Information Technology and Big Data.
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Abstract
Virtual information assistants on mobile app to serve visitors at Helsinki Central Library Oodi
A big challenge for library visitors has always been the great amount of information and how to find new interesting and available content quickly and easily. From libraries’ point of view, the challenge is how to offer different kinds of reader profiles with reading suggestions in a fast, efficient and entertaining way. Library classification rigorously guides the search for information but doesn’t serve all user profiles that well. Many users want to discover content across genre boundaries but at the same time stick to interesting themes. Headai created mobile application with six distinctive, AI-based recommenders for the Helsinki Central Library Oodi. Based on their own areas of interest, these virtual assistants provide visitors with interesting reading suggestions. The service design goes hand in hand with Oodi’s modern architecture and the role of forerunner of libraries in Finland harnessing new technology to serve visitors. To support the idea of virtual assistants, it was natural to use chat-like user interface. Every recommender was designed to have their own personality. AI-assisted book recommenders act as great enthusiasts in serving reading suggestions. At the same time, they utilize many available APIs to enrich the visitor’s experience. The intuitive user interface makes the use very fast and easy. An artificial-intelligence-based book suggesting is a good example of a new technology that can add value to library content and automate repetitive information routines.Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) | ||||||||||||
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Conference details: | IFLA WLIC 2019 - Athens, Greece - Libraries: dialogue for changeSession 114 - Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining to transform knowledge management and information services in libraries and information organizations - Knowledge Management with Information Technology and Big Data |
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Divisions: | Division 3 Library Services > Information Technology Section Division 3 Library Services > Information Technology Section > Big Data Special Interest Group Division 3 Library Services > Knowledge Management Section |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Libraries, chatbots, ontologies, natural language processing, data mining | ||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2019 16:39 | ||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2019 16:39 | ||||||||||||
URI: | https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/2536 |
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