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

(vorläufig)

Datum	Bearbeiter	Thema
29.10	Tao Zhang	Perliminary Discussion (Vorbesprechung)
14.11	Evelyn Koska	Object-oriented Modelling of Context and Context-Awareness
21.11	Simon Gatterer	Software Architecture: A Blackboard-based Approach
28.11	all paticipants	Introduction of Build Demo Applications (part 1)
05.12	Georg Mayer	Design Principles for Context-Aware Systems
05.12	Dayton Scott Bishop	Rule-based Approach in Context-Aware Computing
12.12	all paticipants	Introduction of Build Demo Applications (part 2)
19.12	Lyubomir Yordanov	Maschine Learning Methods for Context-Aware Computing
16.01	Kristian Ivanov	Privacy and Security Issues (entfällt)
23.01	Tobias Simon	Introduction of Build Demo Applications (part 3)
23.01	Maximilian Woehrl, Damir Ismailovic	Introduction of Build Demo Applications (part 3)
30.01	Wei Mu	User Control and End User Programming of Context-Aware Applications
30.01	Evelyn Koska	Object-oriented Model Implementation of Context and Context-Awareness
30.01	Simon Gatterer	Usability Analysis of Build Demo Applications

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 findet am 29.10 im Raum 01.07.058 statt*
• Wöchentlicher Termin: Fr. 15:00-17:00

Anforderungen

• Überdurchschnittliche Motivation
• Vortrag c.a 45 Min.
• Folienbesprechung: Mo. 16:00 im Raum 01.07.060
• Anwesenheit und aktive Beteiligung in den Seminaren
• Selbständige Literaturrecherche

Nützliche Links

• Ein paar Seiten mit Tipps zur Präsentation
  • How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science: A Speaker's Guide for Students
  • Merkblatt zur Gestaltung eines Seminarvortrags