Context-Aware Artifacts: Two Development Approaches

  • Authors:
  • Seng W. Loke

  • Affiliations:
  • La Trobe University

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Pervasive Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Examples of context-aware artifacts include everyday objects, appliances, and handheld devices. In general, developers can choose one of two basic approaches to make an artifact context aware. They can select self-supported context-awareness, which lets an artifact remain self-contained, or they can choose infrastructure-supported context-awareness, which can complement devices with extensive reasoning and sensing capabilities. This article surveys such approaches and their implementations in various devices, also considering associated challenges and future research directions.