Activities, context and ubiquitous computing

Activities, Context and Ubiquitous Computing

Context and context-awareness provides computing environments with the ability to usefully adapt the services or information they provide. It is the ability to implicitly sense and automatically derive the user needs that separates context-aware applications from traditionally designed applications, and this makes them more attentive, responsive, and aware of their user’s identity, and their us...

Ubiquitous computing - computing in context

Context-Aware Wireless Ubiquitous Computing

Marc Weiser's vision [1] on ubiquitous computing includes the demand for wireless solutions towards a large scale inter-connected environment where all participating nodes are acting autonomously, but transparent to the user. Context-aware computing is one technology to support wireless ubiquitous computing as it enables services and applications in the wireless communication environment to ben...

Context Histories, Activities, and Abstractions: Ubiquitous Computing Support for Individual and Collaborative Work

ionsUsers will likely need to provide some degree of directcontrol or fine-tuning over the abstractions used in a givensituation. However, this requires imposing additional“meta-work” on top of the work practices users alreadyhave in place. What user interfaces are most appropriate formanaging abstractions of activity and context histories?Are there instances in whic...

Supporting Localized Activities in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

The design of pervasive and ubiquitous computing systems must be centered on users’ activity in order to bring computing systems closer to people. Adopting an activity-centered approach to the design of pervasive and ubiquitous computing systems leads us to seek to understand: a) how humans naturally accomplish an activity; and b) how computing artifacts from both the environmental and personal...