| | 1 | = Related Communities = |
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| | 3 | This page discusses communities related to our contextual issues and goals. |
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| | 6 | There are several important communities around context: |
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| | 8 | * Context |
| | 9 | * Pervasive Computing |
| | 10 | * Ubiquitous Computing |
| | 11 | * Mobile Computing (?) - I may have just invented that(Sven) ;) |
| | 12 | * User Modeling |
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| | 15 | == Boundaries and connections between the communities == |
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| | 17 | There's always the problem of distinguishing User Modeling (UM) from Context. |
| | 18 | Has anybody GOOD arguments against UM guys doing context research? |
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| | 20 | On my opinion, UM captures |
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| | 22 | - the user's preferences |
| | 23 | - the user's attributes (size, eye color) |
| | 24 | - the user's experience/knowledge (what he knows, what he doesn't) |
| | 25 | - the user's (long-term) plans/goals |
| | 26 | - the user's *typical* actions / ways to solve a problem / ... |
| | 27 | - the user's mental models |
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| | 29 | Whereas, again on my opinion, Context captures |
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| | 31 | - the user's *current* situation |
| | 32 | - the user's *current* problem |
| | 33 | - the user's *current* actions |
| | 34 | - the user's *current* attention/feelings/emotions |
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| | 36 | This is still a weak difference, but I think one great differnce is |
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| | 38 | - The user's CONTEXT will changes *greatly* after some time, which is not to be supposed to happen to his USER MODEL. |
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| | 40 | - The user's CONTEXT will has no real use without an application reacting sensitively to the context. |
| | 41 | - Depending on the context-sensitive application, the user's CONTEXT may be represented in a different way. |
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| | 43 | ??? Feedback ??? |
