Context-Aware Scenarios : Course on Context-Aware Computing 2003

Abstract

According to a recent definition by Dey and Abowd context is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and the application themselves. A system is context-aware if it uses context to provide relevant information and/or services to the user, where relevancy depends on the user's task. The following report contains ten scenarios about how context-aware applications could affect ordinary persons in fifteen years. The scenarios have been written by students participating in a course on context-aware computing in the autumn of 2003.