A Context Aware Automatic Traffic Notification System for Cell Phones

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keshu Zhang ◽  
Kari Torkkola ◽  
Haifeng Li ◽  
Christopher Schreiner ◽  
Harry Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Phones ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Notification System

Using Notification Systems to Create Social Places for Online Learning

2011 ◽  
pp. 1040-1050
Author(s):  
James M. Laffey ◽  
Christopher J. Amelung
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Course Management Systems ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Notification System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Components

Context-aware activity notification systems have potential to improve and support the social experience of online learning. The authors of this chapter have developed a Context-aware Activity Notification System (CANS) that monitors online learning activities and represents relevant contextual information by providing notification and making the learning activity salient to other participants. The chapter describes previous efforts to develop and support online learning context awareness systems; it also defines the critical components and features of such a system. It is argued that notification systems can provide methods for using the context of activity to support members’ understanding of the meaning of activity. When designed and implemented effectively, CANS can turn course management systems (CMS) into technologies of social interaction to support the social requirements of learning.

Context-Awareness in Mobile Commerce

2009 ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Jun Sun ◽  
Marshall Scott Poole
Keyword(s):  
Context Awareness ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Interactive Mode ◽  
Multimedia Technologies

Advances in wireless network and multimedia technologies enable mobile commerce (m-commerce) information service providers to know the location and surroundings of mobile consumers through GPS-enabled and camera-embedded cell phones. Context awareness has great potential for creating new service modes and improving service quality in m-commerce. To develop and implement successful context-aware applications in m-commerce, it is critical to understand the concept of the “context” of mobile consumers and how to access and utilize contextual information in an appropriate way. This article dissects the context construct along both the behavioral and physical dimensions from the perspective of mobile consumers, developing a classification scheme for various types of consumer contexts. Based on this classification scheme, it discusses three types of context-aware applications—noninteractive mode, interactive mode and community mode—and describes newly proposed applications as examples of each.

Context-Awareness in Mobile Commerce

2011 ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Jun Sun ◽  
Marshall Scott Poole
Keyword(s):  
Context Awareness ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Interactive Mode ◽  
Multimedia Technologies

Advances in wireless network and multimedia technologies enable mobile commerce (m-commerce) information service providers to know the location and surroundings of mobile consumers through GPS-enabled and camera-embedded cell phones. Context awareness has great potential for creating new service modes and improving service quality in m-commerce. To develop and implement successful context-aware applications in m-commerce, it is critical to understand the concept of the “context” of mobile consumers and how to access and utilize contextual information in an appropriate way. This article dissects the context construct along both the behavioral and physical dimensions from the perspective of mobile consumers, developing a classification scheme for various types of consumer contexts. Based on this classification scheme, it discusses three types of context-aware applications—non-interactive mode, interactive mode and community mode—and describes newly proposed applications as examples of each.

scholarly journals A context-aware notification framework for developers of computer supported collaborative environments

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Christopher J. Amelung
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
User Preference ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Collaborative Environments ◽  
Notification System ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
New Development

Researchers have identified user presence, awareness, and a sense of community as important components of Computer Supported Collaborative Environments (CSCE) (Dourish and Bellotti, 1992; Erickson and Kellogg, 2003; Moody, 2000; Prinz, 1999). To support user actions and interactions sufficient to create and sustain a sense of community, recent CSCE have been developed with notification systems to provide activity notifications to users. However, these notification systems typically transmit generic notifications as actions occur and do not provide mechanisms for analyzing and providing notifications based on user preference or social context. A challenge facing developers of CSCE is to create a notification system for delivering awareness information based on the ever-changing preferences, interests, and social contexts of users. To address this challenge, this study articulated and advanced a theoretical framework for developers to use when integrating activity notifications into existing CSCE. The proposed framework is based on the importance of user preferences and social context and is derived from the Locales Framework (Fitzpatrick, 1998). The principles of this new development framework are Social Context, Awareness in Context, Activity Discovery, Trends in Activity, Meaning of Activity, and Notification Customization. To evaluate the concepts of this framework, this study developed a context-aware activity notification system for an existing CSCE based on the framework's proposed principles. During the development process, it was determined that not only could the Framework for Notification be used to provide notifications based on user preference and social context, but the use of the proposed Framework afforded a richer understanding of the collaborative needs of users for both the theorists discussing the implications of activity notifications and the developers working to provide those notifications.

Open for Social

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
James Laffey ◽  
Matthew Schmidt ◽  
Christopher Amelung
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Notification System ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
E Learning ◽  
K 12

Online learning in K-12 and higher education has been growing rapidly, and open source software has the potential to improve the quality of e-learning. This paper describes how FOSS enables turning e-learning from a potentially restrictive framing of the education experience to an emergent and social experience. The authors identify several key elements of the FOSS model that position open source initiatives to contribute to the emergent and social nature of experience in e-learning. The authors also describe several challenges to developing FOSS in a community of educators for e-learning. These elements and challenges are illustrated in a brief case report about the development of an open source software system called Context-aware Activity Notification System (CANS). CANS (http://cansaware.com) is a notification system that integrates with collaborative work and learning systems and is designed around the importance of awareness of user activity, a user’s social context and personal notification preferences.

scholarly journals Balancing Awareness and Interruption in Mobile Patrol using Context-Aware Notification

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Willem Streefkerk ◽  
D. Scott McCrickard ◽  
Myra P. van Esch-Bussemakers ◽  
Mark A. Neerincx
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Computing ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Notification System ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Benefits And Costs

In mobile computing, a fundamental problem is maintaining awareness of the environment and of information presented as messages on a mobile device. In mobile police patrols, officers need to pay attention to their direct environment and stay informed of incidents elsewhere. To prevent unwanted interruption, a context-aware notification system adapts the timing and appearance of incident messages, based on user activity (available, in transit, or busy) and message priority (high, normal, or low). The authors evaluated the benefits and costs of adaptive notification compared to three uniform notification styles (presenting full messages, postponing messages or presenting indicators). Thirty-two trained student participants used a prototype notification system in a controlled mobile patrol task. The results were validated in a follow-up study with twenty-four police officers.

Using Notification Systems to Create Social Places for Online Learning

2010 ◽  
pp. 885-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Laffey ◽  
Christopher J. Amelung
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Course Management Systems ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Notification System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Components

Context-aware activity notification systems have potential to improve and support the social experience of online learning. The authors of this chapter have developed a context-aware activity notification system (CANS) that monitors online learning activities and represents relevant contextual information by providing notification and making the learning activity salient to other participants. The chapter describes previous efforts to develop and support online learning context awareness systems; it also defines the critical components and features of such a system. It is argued that notification systems can provide methods for using the context of activity to support members’ understanding of the meaning of activity. When designed and implemented effectively, CANS can turn course management systems (CMS) into technologies of social interaction to support the social requirements of learning.

Using Notification Systems to Create Social Places for Online Learning

2010 ◽  
pp. 170-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Laffey ◽  
Christopher J. Amelung
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Course Management Systems ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Notification System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Components

Context-aware activity notification systems have potential to improve and support the social experience of online learning. The authors of this chapter have developed a Context-aware Activity Notification System (CANS) that monitors online learning activities and represents relevant contextual information by providing notification and making the learning activity salient to other participants. The chapter describes previous efforts to develop and support online learning context awareness systems; it also defines the critical components and features of such a system. It is argued that notification systems can provide methods for using the context of activity to support members’ understanding of the meaning of activity. When designed and implemented effectively, CANS can turn course management systems (CMS) into technologies of social interaction to support the social requirements of learning.

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