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Human-centered and user-adaptive systems are at the heart of the Design for All and Ambient Intelligence initiatives. Obviously, user models are necessary “ingredients” of such systems. We present a user model for navigation systems (mainly pedestrian), which is based on relevant human wayfinding and navigation theories. We represent this model through a Semantic Web ontology and show how it can be incorporated in an indoor navigation system called OntoNav, which enables personalized path selection.