Proactive information service through user participation in context-aware application

Author(s):  
Joonhee Kwon ◽  
Sungrim Kim

2009 ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Jun Sun ◽  
Marshall Scott Poole

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.



Author(s):  
Jun Sun ◽  
Marshall Scott Poole

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.





Author(s):  
Sufri Muhammad Et.al

Service-Based Applications (SBAs) have become increasingly pervasive. These applications rely on the third-parties services available on the cloud, and services must be aware of and adapt to their changing contexts in highly dynamic environments. SBAs with context-aware capabilities have provided the users with personalized services based on their user's (intrinsic) and device's (extrinsic) contextual information, as well as the Quality of Services (QoS). The correctness of service substitution in runtime adaptation is substantial for the continuity of user activity on the system. In Mobile Cloud Learning (MCL) environment most works only focus on intrinsic context factors such as learner's profile, learner's location, etc. We then introduce a comprehensive Dynamic Service Adaptation of Context-Aware Mobile Cloud Learning (DACAMoL), which is designed to reason for bothcontextual factors and QoS inservice discovery, ranking, and selection. The framework represents the contextual information, service descriptions, and QoS using a semantic-based approach to improve the correctness of service substitution. In this paper, wepresent a quasi-experiment study to demonstrate the DACAMoL framework with a mobile app called Mudahnya BM. Mudahnya BM is a learning app to learn basic knowledge of Malay language that build using RESTful backend services. The study involved 30 participants and 33 randomized scenarios tested using One-Sample Wilcoxon Signed Rank test. The results show significantly better service substitutions with 32 out of 33educational servicesare correctly adapted (i.e. 95% of the population).



2011 ◽  
pp. 1702-1719
Author(s):  
Laurence Claeys ◽  
Johan Criel

This chapter introduces the concept of critical user participation as a means to see the socio-technical gap in context aware applications as an opportunity rather then a problem space. It argues that for context aware applications to get integrated in everyday life, the principles of critical user participation as defined in this chapter must be fulfilled. In the first part of the chapter the authors scrutinize the concepts of “context” and “participation” and argue why critical user participation principles should be fulfilled when developing and interacting with context aware applications. The second part consists of an empirical study on the existing vision and context aware applications of the “homes of the future” in Belgium and the Netherlands. In the conclusions a reflection is made upon the opportunities of the socio-technical gap to empower the users of context aware applications.



2010 ◽  
Vol 143-144 ◽  
pp. 201-206
Author(s):  
Liang Xiao ◽  
Fan Wang

Distribution tasks have typical feature of context dependence. Attaining the mission-related dynamic context information service timely and accurately has a significant effect to the execution efficiency of the distribution task. On the basis of the definition of four distribution contexts systematically: network context , product context, customer context, resource context, this paper proposes the model of context management of distribution task, and the collaborative service and process mechanism of distribution tasks base on task context, it is of great value and significance to support the effective implementation of collaborative management of the distribution task in dynamic environment.



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