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Triggering information by context
P. J. Brown
Personal Technologies, 2(1):182-196, September 1998.Abstract
With the increased availability of personal computers with attached sensors to capture their environment, there is a big opportunity for context-aware applications; these automatically provide information and/or take actions according to the user's present context, as detected by sensors. When wel l designed, these applications provide an opportunity to tailor the provision of information closely to the user's current needs. A sub-set of context-a ware applications are discrete applications, where discrete pieces of i nformation are attached to individual contexts, to be triggered when the user enters those contexts. The advantage of discrete applications is that authori ng them can be solely a creative process rather than a programming process: it can be a task akin to creating simple web pages.
This paper looks at a general system that can be used in any discrete context- aware application. It propounds a general triggering rule, and investigates how this rule applies in practical applications.
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@article{591,
author = {P. J. Brown},
title = {Triggering information by context},
month = {September},
year = {1998},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/1998/591},
ISSN = {0949-2054},
journal = {Personal Technologies},
number = {1},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
volume = {2},
}