Context-aware computing applications
Schilit, B.; Adams, N.; Want, R.
Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 1994. Proceedings., Workshop on
Volume , Issue , 8-9 Dec 1994 Page(s):85 - 90
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCSA.1994.512740
Summary:Describes systems that examine and react to an individual's
changing context. Such systems can promote and mediate people's
interactions with devices, computers and other people, and they can help
navigate unfamiliar places. We believe that a limited amount of
information covering a person's proximate environment is most important
for this form of computing, since the interesting part of the world
around us is what we can see, hear and touch. In this paper, we define
context-aware computing and describe four categories of context-aware
applications: proximate selection, automatic contextual reconfiguration,
contextual information and commands, and content-triggered actions.
Instances of these application types have been prototyped on the
PARCTAB, a wireless palm-sized computer
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