GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-99-22
Title:
Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness
Authors:
Anind K. Dey
Gregory D. Abowd
Abstract:
The use of context is important in interactive applications. It is
particularly important for applications where the users context is
changing rapidly, such as in both handheld and ubiquitous computing. In
order to better understand how we can use context and facilitate the
building of context-aware applications, we need to more fully understand
what constitutes a context-aware application and what context is. Towards
this goal, we have surveyed existing work in context-aware computing. In
this paper, we provide an overview of the results of this survey and, in
particular, definitions and categories of context and context-aware. We
conclude with recommendations for how this better understanding of
context inform a framework for the development of context-aware
applications.
Keywords:
Context, context-awareness, definitions, application development
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