Personalized Interactive Newscast (PINC): Towards a Multimodal Interface for Personalized News

The contemporary information infrastructure gives way to a massive offer of news sources and subsequently news contents. Finding such sources and filtering relevant news according to personal preferences is a time-consuming task in the daily effort to stay informed. Moreover many of these sources are not accessible when spare time to read news is available, especially while being en-route. Personalized interactive newscast (PINC) is a system which aggregates vast numbers of news contents and associates them by semantic equivalence. By filtering and arranging by personal preferences a personal newscast is created, embracing recommendations for interesting news articles. This newscast is made accessible via various interfaces to provide a central source of information which is accessible in most situations.