Context-aware computing applications
Schilit, B.
Adams, N.
Want, R.
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Columbia Univ., New York, NY;
This paper appears in: Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 1994. Proceedings., Workshop on
Publication Date: 8-9 Dec 1994
On page(s): 85-90
Meeting Date: 12/08/1994 - 12/09/1994
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, USA
ISBN: 0-8186-6345-6
References Cited: 16
INSPEC Accession Number: 4923986
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/MCSA.1994.512740
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
Abstract
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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