Distributed mediation of ambiguous context in aware environments
- 27 October 2002
- conference paper
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- p. 121-130
- https://doi.org/10.1145/571985.572003
Abstract
Many context-aware services make the assumption that the context they use is completely accurate. However, in reality, both sensed and interpreted context is often ambiguous. A challenge facing the development of realistic and deployable context-aware services, therefore, is the ability to handle ambiguous context. In this paper, we describe an architecture that supports the building of context-aware services that assume context is ambiguous and allows for mediation of ambiguity by mobile users in aware environments. We illustrate the use of our architecture and evaluate it through three example context-aware services, a word predictor system, an In/Out Board, and a reminder tool.Keywords
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