Contextor: capture and dynamic distribution of contextual information

  • Authors:
  • Gaëtan Rey;Joëlle Coutaz

  • Affiliations:
  • CLIPS-IMAG, France;CLIPS-IMAG, France

  • Venue:
  • UbiMob '04 Proceedings of the 1st French-speaking conference on Mobility and ubiquity computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Without the support of adequate software infrastructures, the implementation of context sensitive interactive systems is hard to achieve in a sound way. In this article, we propose the notion of contextor, a software abstraction that supports the operational deployment of interaction contexts. We show how contextors are organized into levels of abstraction, and how these levels fit within the Arch architecture reference model for interactive systems. Based on the P2P paradigm, the contextor infrastructure is intended to support both mobility and ubiquity. Similar in spirit to the Context Toolkit, we make the differences explicit.