Lecture 12 (Context Awareness)

Question 1

What is context awareness?

Answer 1

All information, that can be used to characterise any given situation or entity.

Question 2

Context Awareness- Categories and features

Answer 2

Location (Acrossair, near location)
Environment ( Layar)
Identity (drugs.com, medication reminder) 
Activity ( pro party planner)
Time (Just eat)

Question 3

4 types of context awareness features

Answer 3

Proximate selection- request from the user(lookator, find better WI-FI spots)
Contextual commands - displaying only necessary interface(Zara)
Automatic Contextual reconfiguration - use new content (thuisbezorgd.nl)
Context triggered actions- automatically actions (IOnRoad)