= Related Communities =

This page discusses communities related to our contextual issues and goals.

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There are several important communities around context:

 * Context
 * Pervasive Computing
 * Ubiquitous Computing
 * Mobile Computing (?) - I may have just invented that(Sven) ;)
 * User Modeling

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== Boundaries and connections between the communities ==

There's always the problem of distinguishing User Modeling (UM) from Context.
Has anybody GOOD arguments against UM guys doing context research?

On my opinion, UM captures

 - the user's preferences
 - the user's attributes (size, eye color)
 - the user's experience/knowledge (what he knows, what he doesn't)
 - the user's (long-term) plans/goals
 - the user's *typical* actions / ways to solve a problem / ...
 - the user's mental models

Whereas, again on my opinion, Context captures

 - the user's *current* situation
 - the user's *current* problem
 - the user's *current* actions
 - the user's *current* attention/feelings/emotions

This is still a weak difference, but I think one great differnce is

 - The user's CONTEXT will changes *greatly* after some time, which is not to be supposed to happen to his USER MODEL.

 - The user's CONTEXT will has no real use without an application reacting sensitively to the context.
 - Depending on the context-sensitive application, the user's CONTEXT may be represented in a different way.

??? Feedback ???