What is Context

User’s state. Learn more in: An Architecture Proposal for Residential Care Home Environments

Contains everything of interest that can influence a decision. Learn more in: Business Processes, Dynamic Contexts, Learning

Is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity where an entity is a person, place, or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and applications themselves. Learn more in: Knowledge Management in Collaborative Business Networks

Information about the situation in which decisions are made. Learn more in: Knowledge Fusion Patterns for Context Aware Decision Support

Context is any information that can be used to characterise the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place, or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and applications themselves ( Dey, 2001 ). Not all context information that follows that definition must necessarily be stored by a context management subsystem. While a context management subsystem provides convenient access to context information for third party services or platform services, such services may directly obtain context information from context sources (e.g. for efficiency) if these sources allow such access. Learn more in: Putting Personal Smart Spaces into Context

Circumstances and conditions surrounding an event or set of interactions. Learn more in: Collective Intelligence in a Computer-Mediated Environment

Context provides the basis for analysis, understanding and decision making. It includes the business environment and the management systems of the organization. Context is framed based on defining the scope of the analysis and the inclusion or exclusion of variables. The context includes both time and space considerations. Learn more in: A Holistic Model for Linking Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Strategic Innovation in the Context of Globalization

Is the information about the user and his environment (including his device, network and service). Learn more in: Context-Aware Content Delivery: Architectures, Standards, and Transport

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The things in the environment that surround and are woven together with an object of study. Context has an extensive history in educational research but has a comparatively limited history in educational technology research. Learn more in: Context and Teaching with Technology in the Digital Age

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The surrounding situation of an event, idea, location, situation, etc. Learn more in: Disaster is in the Eye of the Beholder

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The information, e.g., events, concepts, statements, associated with an entity. This information provides a more complete understanding of the entity. Learn more in: Pervasive Cyberinfrastructure for Personalized Education

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Determines the course and the circumstances of economic, operational, political and other influences on the system. It may include other systems that interact with the system. Setting defines the limits within which the system must operate, and this, in turn, influences the architecture. Environmental factors that influence the architecture - it is the mission of the business, which will support the architecture, interested in the internal technical limitations (eg, the requirement to meet the standards of the organization) and external technical constraints (such as the need to interact with the external system or to conform to external regulatory. Learn more in: Development of Model and Software for Tracking Head Avatars in E-Learning Systems

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Teacher knowledge of individual and environment ( Ronau et al., 2010 ; Ronau, Rakes, Wagener, & Dougherty, 2009 ; Ronau, Wagener, & Rakes, 2009 ). Learn more in: Preparing Teachers to Implement Technology: The CCMS Experience

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Information that characterize certain state of the user, such as time, location, cognitive profile, computer resources and other types of data that can help to understand the setting in which the individual is present at the time. Learn more in: A Perspective about the Application of Quality of Context in U-Learning Environments

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Context includes all attributes belonging to humans, machines, devices and the surroundings that describe a distinct situation or activity. The context is gathered through sensors that are part of the environment and the devices carried by the humans. Learn more in: Organizing Contextual Data in Context Aware Systems: A Review

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A service activity and its associated resources inputs, outputs and agents. Learn more in: Co-Creating Value Derivations in a Service System Journey

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Context is something that constrains a focus (e.g., decision making) without intervening in it explicitly. The context is defined relatively to the focus and evolves jointly with it. The focus allows us to discriminate in the context the contextual knowledge, directly related to the focus, and the external knowledge. Learn more in: Contextualization in Decision Making and Decision Support

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Any information characterizing the situation of a person, a place, or an object that is relevant to the interaction between the computing system and its user. Learn more in: Can M-Commerce Benefit from Pervasive Computing?

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Any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and applications themselves, and by extension, the environment the user and applications are embedded in. Learn more in: Context-Awareness and Mobile Devices

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“Context is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place, or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and applications themselves.” (Dey, A. Providing architectural support for building context-aware applications, Ph. D. Thesis Dissertation, College of Computing, Georgia Tech, December 2000). Context includes: location (absolute/relative, physical/virtual, etc.), infrastructure/resources (server and network capabilities and connections, applications), user (user data, usage patterns), environment (physical attributes such as light, temperature, humidity), entities (people, devices, objects), and time (date, time, season). Learn more in: Appropriating Heuristic Evaluation Methods for Mobile Computing

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Any information used to characterize the situation in which a system entity or user is inserted. Learn more in: Modeling Context-Aware Distributed Event-Based Systems

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Is the static picture of the observer. In this case is the cultural vocation of a territory. Learn more in: Cultural Product Management from Environment to Territorial Context: Configuration of the Main Relationships

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All environmental parameters, such as location or time, as well as facts and events that surround a situation. Learn more in: Privacy-Aware Access Control

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Set of actions, elements and interconnections that occur and exists around an agent. Learn more in: Emotional Context? Or Contextual Emotions?

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By context the school and the venue where the learning of both students and teachers take place. Context can facilitate learning. Learn more in: Mentor-Assisted, Reflective, Collaborative Teacher Professional Development

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The settings or location of a given phenomenon. Learn more in: Riding the Wave: Understanding the Context of Female Entrepreneurship in Pakistan

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‘Con’ means ‘within’ while ‘text’ means the verbal representation of meaning. Context has two significances either the physical environment or the linguistic environment which means what precedes and what follows within the text. Learn more in: Learning Arabic through Language of Journalism

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Any information that can be used to characterize the situation of entities (i.e., whether a person, place or object) that are considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and the application themselves. Learn more in: Context as a Necessity in Mobile Applications

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A set of application-dependent information that can be used to characterise the situation of a person, an environment, a device or an object. It can be extracted by the physical space by means of sensors. Learn more in: Requirements on System Design to Increase Understanding and Visibility of Cultural Heritage

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Context is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place, or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and applications themselves (Dey, 2001). Learn more in: Design for Mobile Learning in Museums

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Any information that is relevant to the interaction between a user and computer system. Learn more in: Building Context-Aware E-Commerce Systems: A Data Mining Approach

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Any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place, or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and applications themselves. Learn more in: Enhancing User Experience with Context-Dependent Tasks in Smart Home

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A combination of cultural, structural, and environmental factors, all of which are shaped by the specific circumstances that an organisation is going through at a particular point in time. This context, in turn, shapes the patterns of decision making in the firm (amongst other things). Learn more in: Understanding the Influence of Context on Organisational Decision Making

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The shifting and overlapping political, social, technological, and environmental spaces that individuals occupy in the workplace. Learn more in: E-Learning Adaptability and Social Responsibility

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Any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. Learn more in: Context-Awareness in Pervasive Environments

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Specific conditions or situations of e-learning, including program level (instruction, learner, teacher, and technology) and organizational level (culture, capabilities, readiness, strategy, goal and job). Learn more in: Developing an Integrated Evaluation Framework for E-Learning

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Any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place, or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and application themselves. Learn more in: Trust Based E-Commerce Decisions

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Represents a designation or description of the information systems application environment. Learn more in: Evaluating IT-Enabled Transformation in Public Services: A Case Study on Assessing Information Systems Effectiveness in a Government Organization in Turkey

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Context is a sphere of activity, a geographic region, a communication platform, and an application, a logical or physical domain. Practically, a context is only relevant in an interaction. Cross-context refers to activities spanning over two or more contexts. Learn more in: An Interoperable Cross-Context Architecture to Manage Distributed Personal E-Health Information

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Any information that can be used to characterise the situation of entities (i.e. whether a person, place or object) that are considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and the application themselves. Learn more in: Urban Memory in Space and Time

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Context refers to the relevant surroundings of a user or an entity which can be used to describe a situation. Context can also be used to describe one particular element or dimension in the surroundings. Learn more in: Context-Aware Systems: Models and Functionality

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Any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and applications themselves. Learn more in: Creativity of End Users in Theory and in Practice

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The setting within which organizations, people, processes, information and events are interpreted. Context is an emergent property derived from interrelated dynamic states at a point in time. Learn more in: A Framework for Exploring IT-Led Change in Morphing Organizations

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The sum of all factors variables that influence users’ auditory environments. In this chapter, context includes the visible and tangible physical properties (amenities) and layout of the park and its surroundings as well as the audible elements of the environment. Learn more in: Activity as a Mediator Between Users and Their Auditory Environment in an Urban Pocket Park: A Case Study of Parc du Portugal (Montreal, Canada)

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Context is the circumstances, events, and interrelationships within the organization that provide background information for the risk. Learn more in: Exploring the Risks That Affect Community College Decision Makers

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Context involves the organization, or set of researchers or professionals who collected data and explicit or implicit agreements that were established with data-subjects. Context can mean the physical situation but also involves a number of understandings and expectations about what one can expect from data given in a particular situation under a specific set of conditions. An example of a breach of context would be if data provided to one’s doctor for medical purposes was used by a credit company to assess an individual’s financial viability. Learn more in: Privacy and the Identity Gap in Socio-Technical Systems

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From a positivistic worldview context are the who’s, where’s, when’s and what’s of entities. From a social constructivist worldview context is about meanings that are constructed in interaction with persons, places or objects and not about entities as persons, places or objects as such. Context then defines interaction, but interaction is also changing under influence of context. Learn more in: Future Living in a Participatory Way

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Context-aware computing considers various pertinent aspects of the end-user’s situation when delivering a service. These aspects, or contextual elements, are determined during invocation of the service and may include user profile, for example language, age, and so on. Spatial contextual elements, namely location and orientation, may also be considered. Learn more in: Intelligent User Interfaces for Mobile Computing

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Mobile services and devices that can be used in various places and situations, by a single user or involving others. These circumstances are described as context of use or usage context. Learn more in: Usability Evaluation Methods for Mobile Applications

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The intended context of use for a mobile application. Learn more in: Did You See That?

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and Contextualization specify a scope or a boundary for a knowledge domain (Lee, 2004). Learn more in: A Web Metadata Based-Model for Information Quality Prediction

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Context can refer to the type of transaction or organisation that the entity is identifying itself as well as the manner that the transaction is made. Learn more in: Identity Management

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Context is the set of environmental states and settings that either determines an application’s behavior or in which an application event occurs and is interesting to the user. Learn more in: Ambient E-Service: A Bottom-up Collaborative Business Model

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Defined as rich and rapidly changing predicate relations between objects (user and environment entity) that contain information relevant to the current local domain while an object (user entity) is on the move. Learn more in: User Pro-Activities Based on Context History

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Information about the physical, technological and physiologic environment where an entity is performing and activity. Learn more in: Infrastructures for Development of Context-Aware Mobile Applications

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In our research we define context as the aspects of a current situation. Learn more in: Design of Wearable Computing Systems for Future Industrial Environments

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any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, or an object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and application themselves. Learn more in: An Ontology-Based Context-Aware Infrastructure for Smart Homes

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Factors from the environment in which users and services are placed that influence the needs of a user or the provision of a service. Learn more in: An Integrated Approach for Service Selection Using Non-Functional Properties and Composition Context

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All computationally accessible information that describes the current situation, such as device location, user activities, people and objects in the vicinity, environmental properties such as lighting and noise, device status such as battery charge and network signal strength, available network peers and the services they offer, and so on. Learn more in: Language Engineering for Mobile Software

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Refers to the internal factors of the learner (who – e.g., culture, prior knowledge, age, gender, motivation, affect) as well as external factors (with whom – e.g., teachers/other professionals, institutional philosophies, (with what, learning how – e.g., content/strategies), (where/with what – facilities and technologies). Learn more in: Optimizing Conditions for Learning and Teaching in K-20 Education

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Where the information is produced, sent and/or received. Learn more in: Locative Communication and the Increase of Relevance of the Place in Communication

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It refers to those circumstances, conditions, factors, state of affairs, situation, background, scene, etc. that affects the system within its domain . Learn more in: The Exploitation of Models in Artificial Emotions

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Peculiar and distinctive circumstances that pertain to an event, situation, environment, etc. Learn more in: Contextual Influences on Science Teachers' TPACK Levels

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The all-encompassing tissue in which a rhetorical event occurs. It includes both the material and immaterial, the subjective and the shared. Learn more in: Principled/Digital: Composition's “Ethics of Attunement” and the Writing MOOC

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In this paper, context has multiple meanings. First, it may refer to the macro-level environment, situation or circumstances outside the lecture-theatre or classroom seen as a nested set of societal, cultural, historical and institutional influences on the teaching and learning of statistics. Second, the macro-level context influences and gives meaning to what is happening at the micro-level context, within the lecture theatre where the lecturer and students interact with the artifacts (e.g. lecturer discourse, slides, statistical techniques, problems, software, other people). At the micro-level, the statistical tasks, problems or examples may be set in a context-scenario. The lecturer’s teaching of statistics in the lecture theatre takes intellectual and affective meaning from all the separate contexts in which it is intertwined to result in meaningful learning by the students, who are also actively engaged in the activity. In summary, context is about the relations between the teaching and learning of statistics within the environment of the lecture theatre, at the micro-level and the influences on these relationships from outside the lecture theatre, at the macro-level. Learn more in: Context as Action in the Teaching of Statistical Concepts: An Activity Theory Perspective

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A system of internal and external conditions of life and human activity that affects the perception, understanding and transformation of a particular situation, giving meaning and significance to this situation as a whole and its components. Learn more in: Formation of Invariants of Research Competence of Students: Situational and Contextual Approach

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This describes and explains the circumstances or setting in which something can be understood. Learn more in: Understanding Social Entrepreneurship in the African Context: An Exploratory Review of Evidence From Nigeria

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Describes the working environment and atmosphere including policies, work hours, work climate, and work goals. Learn more in: Bringing Out the Best in Virtual Teams

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Elements that constrain a problem solving without intervening in it explicitly. Two parts are distinguished in the context with respect to a focus, namely the contextual and external knowledge. Learn more in: Context-Based Explanations for E-Collaboration

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Context is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and the application themselves. Learn more in: Exploiting Context in Mobile Applications

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Any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place, or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and the application themselves (Dey, 2001). Learn more in: Context-Aware Service Discovery in Ubiquitous Computing

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Any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. Typical examples are location, identity, and state of people and computational objects. Learn more in: Context Aware Mobility Management

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Sufficiently large (for statistics sake) set of documents with sufficiently uniform topics. Each document can belong to several different contexts, depending on topics it covers Learn more in: Applying the Immunological Network Concept to Clustering Document Collections

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non-linguistic resources such as time, location and prior knowledge that interlocutors employ in the process of meaning-making or interpretation. Learn more in: Self-Construction in Computer Mediated Discourse

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Situations created and continually modified by agent interactions. Learn more in: Modeling Human Resources in the Emergent Organization

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Context comprises relevant information about a service’s situation of use, for example information about the user’s interest, device’s display capabilities, or geographic location of service invocation. Learn more in: The Ubiquitous Grid

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Context is a powerful, and longstanding, concept in human-computer interaction. Interaction with computation is by explicit acts of communication (e.g., pointing to a menu item), and the context is implicit (e.g., default settings). Context can be used to interpret explicit acts, making communication much more efficient. Thus, by carefully embedding computing into the context of our lived activities, it can serve us with minimal effort on our part. Context refers to the physical and social situation in which computational devices are embedded Learn more in: Context Modelling Approaches for Mobile Systems

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The environment in which a system is executed, or for collaborative systems, the environment of the collaborative activity, including information on locations, activities, people, and their relations. Generally, the context data are volatile. Learn more in: Context Aware Collaborative Working Environments

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Collection of interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs. Learn more in: Concepts and Architectures for Mobile Context-Aware Applications

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Any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity should be treated as anything relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, such as a person, a place, or an object, including the user and the application themselves. (Dey, 2001). Learn more in: Field Evaluation of Collaborative Mobile Applications

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Context is the location, time, and activity state of the user when performing a service-related operation such as discovery, advertisement, or invocation. Learn more in: Secure Service Discovery

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Many definitions of context are available in the literature (Dey et al., 2001). The most accepted one defines “context” as any information useful for characterizing the state or the activity of an entity or the world in which this entity operates. An entity is a person, place, or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and applications themselves. Learn more in: Trust Management and Context-Driven Access Control

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Contexts have been introduced in the ontology base as an organizing principle, grouping related lexons. A context can be considered as an identifier of a possible world, leading to specific possible world semantics and mappings between them (Spyns et al., 2007, Sowa, 2000). Learn more in: SDRule Markup Language: Towards Modeling and Interchanging Ontological Commitments for Semantic Decision Making

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A central concept in ubiquitous computing literature that can be understood as the background and specific circumstances of a subject Learn more in: Advertising Challenges in Ubiquitous Media Environments

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Context is taken in this chapter to refer to all aspects of a social process that have an impact on meaning and shape the outcome of a social process. This ranges from the material situational setting through to the topic, the modality and the relationships between the social actors. Learn more in: Like a Poke on Facebook Emergent Semantics in Location-Aware Social Network Services

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The concept which takes into account the levels of text, intertextual and interdiscursive relationships, social variables and institutional frames and the broader sociopolitical and historical contexts in which the discursive practices are embedded and related. In this study, contexts and texts are taken as interconnected and intertextual and interdiscursive. Learn more in: Reproducing Dependency: How Hegemonic Discourses Shape ICT Policies in the Periphery

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Contextual information refers to several possible aspects of the core message: the situation in which the message was produced, the situation in which it is anticipated to be received, an explanation about a statement, an explanation how to go about executing a request for action, or the underlying assumptions about an argument. Learn more in: Knowledge for Communicating Knowledge

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the conditions and background surrounding a person, an event, or an object/content. Learn more in: Connector: A Geolocated Mobile Social Service

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Activity requirement and resources constraints. Learn more in: Mission-Aware Adaptive Communication for Collaborative Mobile Entities

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Sny information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity (a person, place, or object considered as relevant to the interaction between a user and an application). Learn more in: Service Selection with Uncertain Context Information

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Any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity (a person, place, or object considered as relevant to the interaction between a user and an application). Learn more in: Considering Quality of a Service in an Intentional Approach

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Context is any information that is considered relevant to characterize the interaction between a user and the application, for example the user’s location, identity, role, current activity, network or device’s features, etc. Learn more in: Separation of Concerns in Mobile Hypermedia: Architectural and Modeling Issues

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Any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. Learn more in: A Middleware Architecture for Developing Mobile Applications

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Is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place, or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and applications themselves (Dey). Not all context information that follows that definition must necessarily be stored by a context management subsystem. While a context management subsystem provides convenient access to context information for third party services or platform services, such services may directly obtain context information from context sources (e.g. for efficiency) if these sources allow such access. Learn more in: Developing Context-Aware Personal Smart Spaces

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Any information that characterizes the situation of any entity taking part in and influencing the communication act. The most exploited aspect of context in mobile Web contextualization is by far location. Learn more in: New Trends in Semantic-Based Location and Context-Aware Adaptation for Mobile Web Applications Development

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The information about any entity, such as a person, that is relevant to perform the functionality of an application is called context. Learn more in: Quality of Context and Mobile Systems: Past, Present, and Future

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Whatever surrounds the proximal and distal circumstances of any situation. Learn more in: Of Paradigms, Theories, and Models: A Conceptual Hierarchical Structure for Communication Science and Technoself

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