Context-Awareness in Ambient Intelligence

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Declan Traynor ◽  
Ermai Xie ◽  
Kevin Curran
Keyword(s):  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Ubiquitous Computing ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Ambient Intelligence ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Electronic Environments ◽  
Computer Interaction

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) deals with the issue of how we can create context-aware, electronic environments which foster seamless human-computer interaction. Ambient Intelligence encompasses the fields of ubiquitous computing, artificially intelligent systems, and context awareness among others. This paper discusses context-awareness and examines how discoveries in this area will be key in propelling the development of true AmI environments. This will be done by examining the background and reasoning behind this particular strand of AmI research along with an overview of the technologies being explored alongside possible applications of context awareness in computing as well as technological and socio- ethical challenges in this field.

Context-Awareness in Ambient Intelligence

2011 ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Declan Traynor ◽  
Ermai Xie ◽  
Kevin Curran
Keyword(s):  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Ubiquitous Computing ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Ambient Intelligence ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Electronic Environments ◽  
Computer Interaction

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) deals with the issue of how we can create context-aware, electronic environments which foster seamless human-computer interaction. Ambient Intelligence encompasses the fields of ubiquitous computing, artificially intelligent systems, and context awareness among others. This paper discusses context-awareness and examines how discoveries in this area will be key in propelling the development of true AmI environments. This will be done by examining the background and reasoning behind this particular strand of AmI research along with an overview of the technologies being explored alongside possible applications of context awareness in computing as well as technological and socio- ethical challenges in this field.

Context-Awareness and Mobile Devices

2008 ◽  
pp. 205-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anind K. Dey ◽  
Jonna Häkkilä
Keyword(s):  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Mobile Computing ◽  
Ubiquitous Computing ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Mobile Context ◽  
Computer Interaction

Context-awareness is a maturing area within the field of ubiquitous computing. It is particularly relevant to the growing sub-field of mobile computing as a user’s context changes more rapidly when a user is mobile, and interacts with more devices and people in a greater number of locations. In this chapter, we present a definition of context and context-awareness and describe its importance to human-computer interaction and mobile computing. We describe some of the difficulties in building context-aware applications and the solutions that have arisen to address these. Despite these solutions, users have difficulties in using and adopting mobile context-aware applications. We discuss these difficulties and present a set of eight design guidelines that can aid application designers in producing more usable and useful mobile context-aware applications.

Context-Awareness and Mobile Devices

2009 ◽  
pp. 3222-3235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anind K. Dey ◽  
Jonna Häkkilä
Keyword(s):  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Mobile Computing ◽  
Ubiquitous Computing ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Mobile Context ◽  
Computer Interaction

Context-awareness is a maturing area within the field of ubiquitous computing. It is particularly relevant to the growing sub-field of mobile computing as a user’s context changes more rapidly when a user is mobile, and interacts with more devices and people in a greater number of locations. In this chapter, we present a definition of context and context-awareness and describe its importance to human-computer interaction and mobile computing. We describe some of the dif- ficulties in building context-aware applications and the solutions that have arisen to address these. Despite these solutions, users have difficulties in using and adopting mobile context-aware applications. We discuss these difficulties and present a set of eight design guidelines that can aid application designers in producing more usable and useful mobile context-aware applications.

The Context-Security Nexus in Ubiquitous Computing

2016 ◽  
pp. 660-679
Author(s):  
M. Fahim Ferdous Khan ◽  
Ken Sakamura
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Ubiquitous Computing ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Access Control Models ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Right

Context-awareness is a quintessential feature of ubiquitous computing. Contextual information not only facilitates improved applications, but can also become significant security parameters – which in turn can potentially ensure service delivery not to anyone anytime anywhere, but to the right person at the right time and place. Specially, in determining access control to resources, contextual information can play an important role. Access control models, as studied in traditional computing security, however, have no notion of context-awareness; and the recent works in the nascent field of context-aware access control predominantly focus on spatio-temporal contexts, disregarding a host of other pertinent contexts. In this paper, with a view to exploring the relationship of access control and context-awareness in ubiquitous computing, the authors propose a comprehensive context-aware access control model for ubiquitous healthcare services. They explain the design, implementation and evaluation of the proposed model in detail. They chose healthcare as a representative application domain because healthcare systems pose an array of non-trivial context-sensitive access control requirements, many of which are directly or indirectly applicable to other context-aware ubiquitous computing applications.

scholarly journals IoH: A Platform for the Intelligence of Home with a Context Awareness and Ambient Intelligence Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Gomes ◽  
Carlos Ramos ◽  
Aria Jozi ◽  
Bruno Serra ◽  
Lucas Paiva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Ambient Intelligence ◽  
Air Conditioner ◽  
Light Control ◽  
Home Context ◽  
Intelligent Methods ◽  
Intelligence Approach ◽  
Real Building

This paper presents IoH (Intelligence of Home), a platform developed to test some basic intelligent behaviors in Home context. Internet of Things, ambient intelligence and context awareness approaches motivated the development of IoH. The platform involves six layers, responsible by connectivity, persistency, unification, Internet of Things integration, subsystems integration and user interface. The integrated subsystems involve intelligent systems for light control, television brightness control, desk light control, persons counting and air conditioner control. The IoH platform is then tested for a real building, and results and conclusions are obtained. Different intelligent methods and technologies are used, form the use of a diversity of sensors, actuators, and controllers and processing units to a set of artificial intelligence approaches varying from machine learning and optimization algorithms to the use of sensor fusion and computer vision. The use of IoH day-by-day demonstrated an intelligent performance for the real building occupants.

scholarly journals Usability Engineering Methods for Interactive Intelligent Systems

AI Magazine ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Spaulding ◽  
Julie Sage Weber
Keyword(s):  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
Usability Engineering ◽  
Large Repertoire ◽  
Computer Interaction

The field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) offers designers and developers of interactive systems a large repertoire of methods for ensuring that their systems will be both usable and useful. This article offers a brief introduction to these methods, focusing on the ways in which they sometimes need to be adapted and extended to take into account the characteristic properties of systems that include some sort of AI. The discussion is organized around three types of activity: understanding users needs, interaction design, and evaluation. 

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