Abstract
In recent years, the importance of Product-Service Systems (PSS) which forces on generating higher value by integrating physical products and services has been recognized widely in the field of manufacturing. In order to enhance the value of PSS, value co-creation is very important. To realize value co-creation, a provider and a receiver apply appropriate their knowledge and skills. Herewith, they create value-in-context in value co-creation. However, value-in-context is defined by the context, which is provided by actors’recognition. Therefore, each actor has different context in the same service. Hence, it is difficult for a provider and a receiver to co-create value-in-context effectively. However, a method for supporting the sharing of contexts has not yet been established. In this paper, the authors propose context modeling method for extracting and expressing receiver’s context.
