Abstract— Following Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing and calm technology, computer systems should run in the background, preferably without the user noticing it at ...
Motivation – Designers make decisions that later influence how users work with the systems that they have designed. When errors occur in use, it is tempting to focus on the acti...
Today’s model of networking primarily concentrates intelligence at the end hosts with the network itself offering a simple“best-effort”,“data agnostic” communication med...
Context-aware service platforms use context information to customize their services to the current users’ situation. Due to technical limitations in sensors and context reasonin...
Ricardo Neisse, Maarten Wegdam, Marten van Sindere...
: A distributed service to model and control contextual information in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments is presented in this paper. We introduce the general user model ...