GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-97-11
Title:
Context-Awareness in Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing
Authors:
Gregory D. Abowd
Anind K. Dey
Robert Orr
Jason Brotherton
Abstract:
A common focus shared by researchers in mobile, ubiquitous and
wearable computing is the attempt to break away from the traditional
desktop computing paradigm. Computational services need to become as
mobile as their users. Whether that service mobility is achieved by
equipping the user with computational power or by instrumenting the
environment, all services need to be extended to take advantage of the
constantly changing context in which they are accessed. This paper
will report on work done in the Future Computing Environments Group at
Georgia Tech to provide infrastructure for context-aware computing.
We will describe some of the fundamental issues involved in
context-aware computing, solutions we have generated to provide a
flexible infrastructure and several applications that take advantage
of context awareness to allow freedom from traditional desktop computing.
Keywords:
Context-aware computing, ubiquitous computing, consumer applications,
personal information management, tourism, voice-only interaction,
positioning systems
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