TY - GEN
T1 - Towards Well-Founded and Richer Context-Awareness Conceptual Models
AU - Shishkov, Boris
AU - van Sinderen, Marten
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - We observe that context-aware systems currently developed in one domain or another are mostly technology-driven, and not so much user-centric. They are often not based on a thorough analysis of the effects they produce when interacting with their context, especially regarding the contribution of these effects to user needs. We argue that a conceptual framework is needed to support such analyses. In this paper we identify the concepts necessary to define important structural aspects of a context-aware system and its context, and to formulate generalizations about effects of the interaction of the context-aware system and its context related to user needs. Using this conceptual framework, we classify context-aware systems in terms of the kinds of context assumptions that we can make at design time, and we discuss several threats to validity of a context-aware system. We believe that the proposed conceptual framework can help to better assess the utility concerning a context-aware system design. We use various examples of context-aware applications to illustrate our ideas.
AB - We observe that context-aware systems currently developed in one domain or another are mostly technology-driven, and not so much user-centric. They are often not based on a thorough analysis of the effects they produce when interacting with their context, especially regarding the contribution of these effects to user needs. We argue that a conceptual framework is needed to support such analyses. In this paper we identify the concepts necessary to define important structural aspects of a context-aware system and its context, and to formulate generalizations about effects of the interaction of the context-aware system and its context related to user needs. Using this conceptual framework, we classify context-aware systems in terms of the kinds of context assumptions that we can make at design time, and we discuss several threats to validity of a context-aware system. We believe that the proposed conceptual framework can help to better assess the utility concerning a context-aware system design. We use various examples of context-aware applications to illustrate our ideas.
KW - Adaptive service delivery
KW - Architectural structure
KW - Conceptual modeling
KW - Context-awareness
KW - User needs
KW - Utility analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85117745834&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-79976-2_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-79976-2_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85117745834
SN - 9783030799755
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 118
EP - 132
BT - Business Modeling and Software Design - 11th International Symposium, BMSD 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Shishkov, Boris
PB - Springer
T2 - 11th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2021
Y2 - 5 July 2021 through 7 July 2021
ER -