Pitfalls and perspectives in context-awareness

Authors:
Christopher Lueg
Affiliations:
University of Technology Sydney
Venue:
CHINZ '01 Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Human Interaction
Year:
2001

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Abstract

Despite increasing interest in context-aware artifacts we are still far from understanding the full complexity of making use of context. In this paper, we attempt to contribute to clarifying the notion of context by making an explicit distinction between context and situation which we understand as a social construct in the first place. In particular, we argue that some of the difficulties with artifacts making use of context arise because of the fundamental difference between context as a description of a situation and the situation itself: while the situation is open to (re-)negotiation, the opportunity is lost once the situation has been codified as context.