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      Context-awareness in the wild: An investigation into the existing uses of context in everyday life

      Pascoe, Jason; Thomson, Kirsten; Rodrigues, Helena
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       10.1007/978-3-540-76888-3_39
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      Pascoe, J., Thomson, K., & Rodrigues, H. (2007). Context-awareness in the wild: An investigation into the existing uses of context in everyday life. In R. Meersman, Z. Tari, P. Herrero et al. (eds.), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007 (pp. 193-202). Berlin, Germany: Springer.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8019
      Abstract
      It is common for literature on context-awareness to focus on specific application domains or on the development of models and frameworks to facilitate context-awareness. In this study, however, we take a step back from such work in order to investigate how regular people may already be employing, or trying to employ, context-awareness in their everyday lives using existing mobile tools (such as mobile phones, paper notepads, etc.). We believe that an understanding of these existing real-world uses and needs of context-awareness will help to better inform and direct research efforts in this domain. Towards this aim we present the findings of a user study in which twelve randomly selected individuals recorded a diary on their use of mobile tools over the period of two days. The findings clearly demonstrate that people do indeed currently employ a wide variety of contexts and context-aware behaviours, albeit in a manner that is often imperfect and at a sub-conscious level.
      Date
      2007
      Type
      Conference Contribution
      Publisher
      Springer
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      • Computing and Mathematical Sciences Papers [1454]
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