The Conference Assistant: Combining Context-Awareness with Wearable Computing Export

@misc{citeulike:5369398, abstract = {We describe the Conference Assistant, a prototype mobile, context-aware application that assists conference attendees. We discuss the strong relationship between context-awareness and wearable computing and apply this relationship in the Conference Assistant. The application uses a wide variety of context and enhances user interactions with both the environment and other users. We describe how the application is used and the context-aware architecture on which it is based. 1. Introduction In human-human interaction, a great deal of information is conveyed without explicit communication, but rather by using cues. These shared cues, or context, help to facilitate grounding between participants in an interaction [3]. We define context to be any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity, where an entity can be a person, place, or physical or computational object. In human--computer interaction, there is very little shared context between the human and the co...}, author = {Dey, Anind K. and Salber, Daniel and Abowd, Gregory D. and Futakawa, Masayasu}, citeulike-article-id = {5369398}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.737}, keywords = {context-awareness, sensors, ubiquitous, wearable}, pages = {21--28}, posted-at = {2009-08-05 08:25:34}, priority = {2}, title = {The Conference Assistant: Combining Context-Awareness with Wearable Computing}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.737}, year = {1999} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:5369398 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5369398 N2 - We describe the Conference Assistant, a prototype mobile, context-aware application that assists conference attendees. We discuss the strong relationship between context-awareness and wearable computing and apply this relationship in the Conference Assistant. The application uses a wide variety of context and enhances user interactions with both the environment and other users. We describe how the application is used and the context-aware architecture on which it is based. 1. Introduction In human-human interaction, a great deal of information is conveyed without explicit communication, but rather by using cues. These shared cues, or context, help to facilitate grounding between participants in an interaction [3]. We define context to be any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity, where an entity can be a person, place, or physical or computational object. In human--computer interaction, there is very little shared context between the human and the co... EP - 28 TI - The Conference Assistant: Combining Context-Awareness with Wearable Computing SP - 21 KW - context-awareness KW - sensors KW - ubiquitous KW - wearable AU - Dey, Anind AU - Salber, Daniel AU - Abowd, Gregory AU - Futakawa, Masayasu PY - 1999/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.737 ER -