An application of a context-aware file system

  • Authors:
  • Christopher K. Hess;Roy H. Campbell

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA;Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

  • Venue:
  • Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Ubiquitous computing environments stretch the requirements of traditional infrastructures used to facilitate the development of applications. Activities are often supported by collections of applications, some of which are automatically launched with little or no human intervention. This task-driven environment challenges existing application construction and data management techniques. In this paper, we describe a file system that organises application data based on contextual information, imports user data based on its physical presence, and supports format conversions to accommodate device context. We describe several applications that we have developed within our ubiquitous computing infrastructure and show how they leverage the novel features of our file system to simplify their complexity.