Templates and queries in contextual hypermedia

This paper presents a new definition of context for contextaware computing based on a model that relies on dynamic queries over structured objects. This new model enables developers to flexibly specify the relationship between context and context data for their context-aware applications. We discuss a framework, HyConSC, that implements this model and describe how it can be used to build new contextual hypermedia systems. Our framework aids the developer in the iterative development of contextual queries (via a dynamic query browser) and offers support for context matching, a key feature of contextual hypermedia. We have tested the framework with data and sensors taken from the HyCon contextual hypermedia system and are now migrating HyCon to this new framework. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.4 [Information Systems]: INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION—Hypertext/Hypermedia General Terms Design, Experimentation, Standardization Keywords Structural computing, context-aw...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: HT
• Authors: Kenneth M. Anderson, Frank Allan Hansen, Niels Olof Bouvin
• Keywords: Contextual Hypermedia, Contextual Queries, HT 2006, HyCon Contextual Hypermedia