Today I read a paper titled “The What, Who, Where, When, Why and How of Context-Awareness”
The abstract is:
The understanding of context and context-awareness is very important for the areas of handheld and ubiquitous computing.
Unfortunately, at present, there has not been a satisfactory definition of these two concepts that would lead to a more effective communication in humancomputer interaction.
As a result, on the one hand, application designers are not able to choose what context to use in their applications and on the other, they cannot determine the type of context-awareness behaviours their applications should exhibit.
In this work, we aim to provide answers to some fundamental questions that could enlighten us on the definition of context and its functionality.