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

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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 contextawareness 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. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.

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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 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4805 LNCS, pp. 193–202). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76888-3_39

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