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Visualization is coming of age. With visual depictions being seamlessly integrated into documents, and data visualization techniques being used to understand increasingly large and complex datasets, the term "visualization"' is becoming used in everyday conversations. But we are on a cusp; visualization researchers need to develop and adapt to today's new devices and tomorrow's technology...
Context-aware applications do not always adapt their behaviours in ways that users expect due to a variety of reasons. Applications that lack intelligibility are often incapable of offering explanations to users as to why they decided to adapt their behaviours in certain ways, and providing feedback mechanisms for users to take control of any unwanted adaptation. This can lead to loss of user trust,...
Context-awareness in pervasive smart spaces exposes intuitively useful services. These services implicitly annotate users' personal information with contextual cues to individualise experiences. Mobile terminals have positioned most domestic and business users as potential consumers of these services. To alleviate the inconveniences of small screens, compact keyboards and users' limited attention...
This paper presents a semi-automatic approach to Web applications design evolution which leverages the Ubiquitous Web Applications (UWA) design framework, a methodology and a set of models and tools for the user-centered design of multi-channels and context-aware Web applications. The approach is based on a two-step redesign process: first a semi-automatic reverse modeling phase analyzes the html...
To realize the integration of the information space and physical space contained man-machine cooperation, auto-adaptation system, and intelligent management of engineering quality, in the construction quality management, this paper proposes a distributed hierarchical context-aware model which is a universal service for construction quality management system. Context-aware technology plays an important...
In this paper a model for the development of context-awareness applications using Near Field Communication is presented. The model is based in the association of services and resources to augmented objects through Tags. The different types of services assigned to the objects are modeled in a hierarchy defining the execution order and personalizing the user interaction through the use of resources...
The advances in distributed sensing and wireless communication enable pervasive home applications which are quit information-rich. Hereby the integrated access and management of heterogeneous information becomes an increasingly important research topic. Moreover recent popularity and advances in visual aids (Google maps, 3D computer graphics, PS games, etc.) call for the more attractively intuitive...
Context-aware computing is an emerging computing paradigm that provides intelligent context-aware application. Its core idea is to have computers understand the real world so that human-computer interactions can happen at a much higher abstraction level, hence to make the interactions much more pleasant or transparent to human users. Context-awareness is the key to achieve this goal. It entails a...
Concepts of individualization represent an enhancement of existing role concepts by containing subjective information demands. Role concepts are related to personalization and grant access to IT resources. By means of context- and situation-based approaches a concept is introduced that provides an individual - as opposed to personalized - access to IT resources in heterogeneous system landscapes....
This paper addresses the problem of learning situation models for providing context-aware services. Context for modeling human behavior in a smart environment is represented by a situation model describing environment, users, and their activities. A framework for acquiring and evolving different layers of a situation model in a smart environment is proposed. Different learning methods are presented...
Context awareness is of importance to promoting the intelligence of human-computer interaction. However, current research focus on location based context, which is the obstacle for pervasive computing application. To provide smart process service for individual, a self-adaptive pervasive personal process context interaction model is proposed, which can build personal process service context automatically...
Over the past 20 years, a lot of effort has gone into making the vision of ubiquitous computing a reality. A major focus of this effort has been on the understanding of human activity as input to enable the design and implementation of context-aware applications. Context-awareness is a vital enabling technology for ubiquitous virtual reality applications. However, it is only recently that we have...
In this paper, we study how to exploit the context-awareness in augmented reality (AR) applications to take advantage of the context in both the high-level and low-level processing. We propose an AR system architecture that works with a context-awareness framework. In the system, both the preliminary and the final context is provided to the process that needs the context. We provide two scenarios...
Computing technology is radically changing the manner in which we work and communicate with computers. ubiquitous virtual reality (U-VR) has been researched in order to apply the concept of virtual reality and its technology into ubiquitous computing. In this paper, we analyze past research on ubiquitous virtual reality and find future research direction.
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