Context-aware mobile applications for communication in intelligent environment

Abstract

Peculiarities of communication between users and devices in intelligent environment are described in the paper. The main problems are the heterogeneity of hardware and software at integration of mobile devices as well as the variability of natural signals at the development of multimodal user interfaces. The modern context-aware applications take into account preferences and abilities of user and adapt ones to conditions of physical environments, computing and network resources. The means of Android-based mobile devices, which could be used to acquire attributes of context, are analyzed. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.