Abstract
It has been over a decade since the concept of context and context-awareness first introduced in computer science research domain. It seems obvious that the context-awareness is acknowledged as a very important step in ubiquitous computing, and many researchers are working on this topic for realizing it. In this paper, we present a survey of a number of existing context-aware systems. As a result of the survey, we outline a general process in context-aware systems and explain design considerations of context-aware systems. In addition, we summarize characteristics of representative existing context-aware systems in history and present a trend analysis of the systems. In conclusion, we suggest future work for better context-aware systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 527-547 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Information (Japan) |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - Feb 1 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Application
- Context-aware middleware
- Context-awareness
- Framework
- Service
- Ubiquitous computing