Beyond Context Awareness

Author

Lukowicz, Paul ; Choudhury, Tanzeem ; Gellersen, Hans

Author_Institution

Univ. of Passau, Passau, Germany

Volume

10

Issue

4

fYear

2011

fDate

4/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

17

Abstract

Much of the past pervasive computing research has been devoted to systems composed of a small number of devices that interact with a single individual or a small group of users. Body-worn sensors and sensors embedded in the user\´s environment were used to infer user location, activity, and information about the user\´s immediate surroundings, shaping the concept of context awareness. This issue is motivated by the fact that as technology becomes truly pervasive, we must proceed from the "single user, single system" perspective to "large-scale heterogeneous systems" involving many devices and many individuals collaborating over different spatial and temporal scales.

Keywords

ubiquitous computing; user interfaces; body-worn sensor; context awareness; pervasive computing research; user activity; user information; user location; Context-aware services; Predictive models; Social network services; Special issues and sections; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless sensor networks; large-scale opportunistic sensing; people flow; sensor networks; social networks; traffic prediction;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Pervasive Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1268

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MPRV.2011.67

Filename

6038718