Towards a dynamic process model of context

Published 1 January 2004

Peter Lonsdale

Citations25

TL;DR

A model that describes context as a dynamic process with historic dependencies is presented that allows to build a useful, understandable context-aware system in collaboration with content creators and stakeholders and describe this set-up with other system developers.

Abstract

The complex usage of mobile devices coupled with their limited resources in terms of display and processing suggests that being able to understand the context of the user would be beneficial. In this paper we present a model that describes context as a dynamic process with historic dependencies. This model allows us to i) build a useful, understandable context-aware system in collaboration with content creators and stakeholders; ii) describe this set-up with other system developers; iii) represent the current context state to users and allow them make changes where necessary.

Keywords

Computer Science

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