(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999)
Dey, Anind K.; Futakawa, Masayasu; Salber, Daniel; Abowd, Gregory D.
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 was based.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999)
Dey, Anind K.; Salber, Daniel; Futakawa, Masayasu; Abowd, Gregory D.
Context is an important, yet poorly utilized source of information in interactive computing. It is difficult to use because, unlike other forms of user input, there is not common, reusable way to handle context. Most context-aware applications have been built in an ad hoc manner. We discuss the requirements for dealing with context and present an architectural solution we have designed and implemented to help application designers build context-aware applications more easily. We illustrate the use of the architecture through a context-aware application that assists conference attendees.