A Model of User-Centric Context-Aware Service Development

The utility of a context-aware service for a user depends on the user's perception. For the user of a smart home where the set of desired services is open, it is difficult to prepare a priori for all possible service scenarios that the user considers important. This paper presents a method for developing context-aware services which empowers the user to create his/her personalized context-aware services. We introduce a framework of context-aware services, which we use to measure the capability of our method. Our method supports all five patterns of context-aware services of the framework.