Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness Export

@inproceedings{Anind2000Towards, abstract = {The use of context is important in interactive applications. It is particularly important for applications where the user's 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 contextaware 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.}, address = {The Hague, The Netherlands}, author = {Dey, Anind K. and Abowd, Gregory D.}, booktitle = {Workshop on The What, Who, Where, When, and How of Context-Awareness (CHI 2000)}, citeulike-article-id = {1689359}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/contexttoolkit/}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gvu/tr/1999/99-22.pdf}, day = {3}, keywords = {application, context, d22, definition, l3s\_context\_workshop, survey, ubiquitous}, month = {April}, posted-at = {2007-09-24 13:17:32}, priority = {2}, title = {Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/contexttoolkit/}, year = {2000} }

TY - CONF ID - Anind2000Towards L3 - citeulike-article-id:1689359 N2 - The use of context is important in interactive applications. It is particularly important for applications where the user’s 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 contextaware 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. AD - The Hague, The Netherlands TI - Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness T2 - Workshop on The What, Who, Where, When, and How of Context-Awareness (CHI 2000) KW - application KW - context KW - d22 KW - definition KW - l3s_context_workshop KW - survey KW - ubiquitous AU - Dey, Anind AU - Abowd, Gregory PY - 2000/04/03/ UR - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/contexttoolkit/ ER -