Distributed mediation of ambiguous context in aware environments

  • Authors:
  • Anind Dey;Jennifer Mankoff;Gregory Abowd;Scott Carter

  • Affiliations:
  • Intel Research, Berkeley Intel Corporation and UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA;UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2002

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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.