Enhancing user interaction with context-awareness in cultural spaces

Context Awareness in Mobile Cultural Heritage Applications

In this paper, a novel definition of Context is presented along with its usage in a Mobile application for Cultural Heritage (CH). The proposed approach is pragmatic and takes care of practical issues that need to be addressed when an implementation has to be built. Examples are shown of how the context is used for three different purposes: context-aware media retrieval, user orienteering and s...

Support online social interaction with Context - Awareness

Social interaction is critical to knowledge building and sharing in online learning. This paper identifies knowledge, social and technical contexts as the three essential elements of the context space for online social interaction, and accordingly proposes a three-dimensional context-awareness (CA) model to support online social interaction, including Awareness to Knowledge Context, Awareness t...

A privacy enhancing infrastructure for context-awareness

Privacy protection remains a serious bar to the widespread deployment of context -aware and ubiquitous computing environments. Here, we outline an experimental privacyenhancing infrastructure based on RoleBased Access Control and the use of P3P.

Context-Awareness Micro-architecture for Smart Spaces

Context-awareness in Mobile Tourist Information Systems: Challenges for User Interaction

Context in mobile tourist information systems is typically captured as the current location of the user. Few systems consider the user’s interests or wider context of the sights. This paper explores ideas of how to model, observe, evaluate, and exploit a richer notion of context in this application area. We discuss the influence of such a richer context model on the user interaction for both th...