Hauptseminar Research Issues in Context Aware Computing

Prof. Bernd Brügge, Ph.D.
Dipl.-Inf. Tao Zhang

Übersicht

The term Context Aware Computing is commonly understood by those working in ubiquitous/pervasive computing, where it is felt that context is key in their efforts to disperse and enmesh computation into our lives. Context refers to the physical and social situation in which computational devices are embedded. One goal of context-aware computing is to acquire and utilize information about the context of a device to provide services that are appropriate to the particular people, place, time, events, etc. For example, a cell phone will always vibrate and never beep in a concert, if the system can know the location of the cell phone and the concert schedule.

However, this is more than simply a question of gathering more and more contextual information about complex situations. More information is not necessarily more helpful. Further, gathering information about our activities intrudes on our privacy. Context information is useful only when it can be usefully interpreted, and it must be treated with sensitivity. Context-awareness is fine in theory. The research issue is figuring out how to get it to work in practice. The problems for human-computer interaction, in particular, are significant ones. Context-aware computing completely redefines the basic notions of interface and interaction. Research questions abound will be discussed: What role does context play in our everyday experience? How can this be extended to a technological domain? What can the computation really do for us? How can we interact with as an invisible presence and yet maintain adequate control? How can we feel both served and safe?

Themenliste

Group 1: Wednesdays 13:00 - 15:00

Datum	Bearbeiter	Thema
28.04	Tao Zhang	Perliminary Discussion (Vorbesprechung)
05.05	Tao Zhang	Introduction of Context and Context-Awareness
12.05	Iulia Alexandrescu	Software Architecture: The Context-Toolkit
19.05	Shasha Meng	Human Considerations and Design Principles for Context Aware Systems
26.05	all participants	Discussion 1: Do Context-Aware Applications take the Control away from the Endusers?
02.06	Georg Lutz	ECA Rules for reactive Context-Aware Environment
09.06	Stephan Hohe	Maschine Learning Methods for Context-Aware Computing
16.06	Fatma Celik	Empowering End-user Programming in context-aware Computing
23.06	all participants	Discussion 2: Usefulness and Challenges by Enduser Programming
30.06	Shen Wang	Bridging the Gap between the Physical and Virtual World with RFID technology
30.06	Tingting Hu	Privacy Issues in Context-Aware Computing
07.07	Daniel Wolfertshofer	Tangible Interfaces
14.07	all participants	Discussion 3: Building Simple Tangible Interfaces for Intelligent Home by Endusers

Group 2: Wednesdays 15:00 - 17:00

Datum	Bearbeiter	Thema
28.04	Tao Zhang	Perliminary Discussion (Vorbesprechung)
05.05	Tao Zhang	Introduction of Context and Context-Awareness
12.05	Guiyue Jin	Software Architecture: The Context-Toolkit
19.05	Christian Haerdt	Human Considerations and Design Principles for Context Aware Systems
26.05	all participants	Discussion 1: Do Context-Aware Applications take the Control away from the Endusers?
09.06	Goekhan Oezer	ECA Rules for reactive Context-Aware Environment
09.06	Dat Nguyen-Tien	Maschine Learning Methods for Context-Aware Computing
16.06	Lijun Luo	Empowering End-user Programming in context-aware Computing
23.06	all participants	Discussion 2: Usefulness and Challenges by Enduser Programming
30.06	Jian Zhu	Bridging the Gap between the Physical and Virtual World with RFID technology
07.07	Anja Rein	Tangible Interfaces
14.07	all participants	Discussion 3: Building Simple Tangible Interfaces for Intelligent Home by Endusers

Literatur

1. The Computer for the 21st Century; Mark Weiser:
   http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/SciAmDraft3.html
2. Some Computer Science Issues in Ubiquitous Computing; Mark Weiser:
   http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiCACM.html
3. Das Context Toolkit;
   http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dey/context.html
4. Architectures for context; Winograd, T.
   http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/papers/context/context.pdf
5. Seeking a Foundation for Context-Aware Computing ; Paul Dourish:
   http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/embodied/essay.pdf
6. Intelligibility and Accountability: Human Considerations in Context Aware Systems;Victoria Bellotti
   
7. Articulating the Task at Hand and Making Information Relevant to It; Gerhard Fischer
   http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/hci2001.pdf

Termine

• Voranmeldung per E-Mail an Tao Zhang (zhang@in.tum.de) .
• Vorbesprechung: am Mittwoch, den 28.04.2004, um 15:00 im Raum 01.07.058
• Wöchentlicher Termin: wie oben angekündigt

Anforderungen

• Überdurchschnittliche Motivation
• Vortrag c.a 45 Min.
• Folienbesprechung: individuell nach Vereinbarungen
• Anwesenheit und aktive Beteiligung in den Seminaren
• Selbständige Literaturrecherche

Nützliche Links

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