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Context-Awareness and Mobile Devices

Context-Awareness and Mobile Devices

Anind K. Dey, Jonna Häkkilä
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781605660547|ISBN10: 160566054X|EISBN13: 9781605660554
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-054-7.ch238
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Dey, Anind K., and Jonna Häkkilä. "Context-Awareness and Mobile Devices." Mobile Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by David Taniar, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 3222-3235. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-054-7.ch238

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Dey, A. K. & Häkkilä, J. (2009). Context-Awareness and Mobile Devices. In D. Taniar (Ed.), Mobile Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 3222-3235). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-054-7.ch238

Chicago

Dey, Anind K., and Jonna Häkkilä. "Context-Awareness and Mobile Devices." In Mobile Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by David Taniar, 3222-3235. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-054-7.ch238

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Abstract

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.

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