Title:
Exploiting type-awareness in a self-recovering disk

Keywords:
type-awareness

Abstract:
... block-based disk with negligible performance overheads. We also show how semantics-aware replication of blocks can help improve the recoverability of data ...

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Exploiting Type-Awareness in a Self-Recovering Disk?Kiron Vijayasankar, Gopalan Sivathanu, Swaminathan Sundararaman, and ... inside a block-baseddisk with negligible performance overheads. We also show howsemantics-aware replication of blocks can help improve the recov-erability of data ...
... each ref-erence block number. Since higher level software is not aware ofreference block replication, all I/O requests are identified by theblock ...
... would consumeat least half of total disk space. In contrast, type-awareness enablesSRDs to know the relationship between blocks stored on the ...

Keywords:
awareness

Abstract:
... constructing both physical and virtual models to better understand <i>inter-referential awareness</i> -- or the ability for one participant to refer to ...

References:
J. W. Chastine, Zhu, Y., Preston, J. A, "A Framework for Inter-referential Awareness in Collaborative Environments," in 2nd International Conference on Collaborative Computing. Atlanta, GA, 2006.

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... constructing both physical and virtual models to better understand inter-referential awareness ? or the ability for one participant to refer to ... Information Systems ? Artificial, augmented, and virtual realities. Additional Keywords: awareness, , referencing 1 INTRODUCTION Mixed reality environments provide scientists and ... content, designers of collaborative augmented systems must support communication and awareness. . As application domains emerge, they bring with them a ... be successful a fundamental requirement is the support for inter-referential awareness ? or the ability for one participant to refer to ... and hypothesized that 1) participants would prefer co-located interaction, 2) awareness of the viewpoint of others would be significant, and 3) ...
... objects in remote spaces (where the initiator must first become aware of the shared space), virtual objects embedded within physical ones ...
... ask ?Like this?? This behaviour demonstrates that the builder was aware that the remote guide was ?present? and could see their ...
... partially occluded their view. The head was included to support awareness of the viewing direction of the collaborator, and was intended ...
... multiple viewpoints. Second, shared video also allowed guides to become aware of the remote environment (i.e. allowing them to identify which ...
... W. Chastine, Zhu, Y., Preston, J.A, "A Framework for Inter-referential Awareness in Collaborative Environments," in 2nd International Conference on Collaborative Computing. ...

Title:
Self-aware QoS management in virtualized infrastructures

Keywords:
self-aware

Abstract:
... agenda aiming to develop a novel methodology for engineering of self-aware software systems. The latter will have built-in architecture-level QoS models ...

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11-icac-Descartes.dviSelf-Aware QoS Management in Virtualized InfrastructuresSamuel KounevKarlsruhe Institute ofTechnology, 76131 Karlsruhe,Germanykounev@kit.eduFabian ... agenda aiming to develop a novel method-ology for engineering of self-aware software systems. Thelatter will have built-in architecture-level QoS models en-hanced ... of meth-ods, techniques and tools for the engineering of so-called self-aware software systems. The latter will have built-in onlineQoS prediction and ... prediction and self-adaptation capabilities addressingthe challenges described in Sect. 1. Self-awareness is de?nedby the combination of three properties: i) Self-reflective:systems should ... de?nedby the combination of three properties: i) Self-reflective:systems should be aware of their software architecture, ex-ecution platform and the hardware infrastructure ...
... queries during opera-tion provides the basis for implementing techniques for self-aware QoS management. Such techniques will be triggeredautomatically during operation in ...

Title:
Workshop overview for the international workshop on situation, activity and goal awareness

Keywords:
goal awareness
context awareness
situation awareness
activity awareness

Abstract:
... report summarizes the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness held at the 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, ...

References:
Eunju Kim, Sumi Helal, Chris Nugent and Jaewoong Lee. Assurance-Oriented Activity Recognition. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011.
Marjan Ghazvininejad, Hamid R. Rabiee, Nima Pourdamghani and Parisa Kanipour Roshan. HMM Based Semi-Supervised Learning for Activity Recognition. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011.
Mi Zhang and Alexander Sawchuk. A Bag-of-Features-Based Framework for Human Activity Representation and Recognition. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011.
Michele Dominici, Bastien Pietropaoli and Frédéric Weis. Towards a Feasibility-Driven Uncertainty-Aware Layered Architecture for Recognizing Complex Domestic Activity. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011.
Kadouche Rachid. Inhabitant prediction in smart houses. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011.
Muhammad Fahim. Activity Recognition: An Evolutionary Ensembles Approach. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011.
Veronika Koltunova, Jesse Hoey and Marek Grzes. Goal-Oriented Sensor Selection for Intelligent Phones (GOSSIP). In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011.
Xin Hong, Chris Nugent, Steven Devlin, Maurice Mulvenna, Jonathan Wallace and Suzanne Martin. Dynamic Multi-component based Activity Detection and Recognition within Smart Homes. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011.
Afsaneh Doryab and Jakob Bardram. Identification of Sequential Activity Patterns in Collaborative and Nomadic Settings. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011.
Hajar Mousannif; Ismail Khalil. Cooperation in Static and Mobile sensor-based Platforms for Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011.
Hongyuan Wang; Rutvij Mehta; Sam Supakkul; Lawrence Chung. Rule-based Context-aware Adaptation Using a Goal-Oriented Ontology. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011.
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... overview for the international workshop on situation, activity and goal awareness SAGAware 2011: International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness Liming Chen School of Computing and Mathematics University of Ulster, ... report summarizes the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness held at the 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, ... Computing, on September 18 in Beijing, China. Author Keywords Situation Awareness, , Activity Awareness, , Goal Awareness, , Context Awareness. . ACM Classification Keywords A.0 [General Literature]: GENERAL - Conference ... factors. H.3.4 [Information Systems]: INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL - Current awareness systems. General Terms Algorithms, Design, Human Factors. INTRODUCTION Ubiquitous computing ... INTRODUCTION Ubiquitous computing aims to enable and support anywhere, anytime, context-aware applications. Sensing, interpretation and integration of events, behaviors and environmental ... latest accomplished and ongoing research on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness and their novel application in ubiquitous computing. The goal was ... research area in ubiquitous computing, i.e., situation, activity and goal awareness. . It has covered the spectrum of these topics at ... introduced ?iCampus?, as an example of a local and context aware pervasive environment. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Liming Chen, University of Ulster, UK ... research advances in the areas of situation, activity and goal awareness.
... Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. . (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011. 2. Marjan ... Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. . (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011. 3. Mi ... Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. . (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011. 4. Michele ... Michele Dominici, Bastien Pietropaoli and Fr d ric Weis. Towards a Feasibility-Driven Uncertainty-Aware Layered Architecture for Recognizing Complex Domestic Activity. In Proceedings of ... Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. . (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011. 5. Kadouche ... Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. . (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011. 6. Muhammad ... Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. . (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011. 7. Veronika ... Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. . (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011. 8. Xin ... Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. . (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011. 9. Afsaneh ... Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. . (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011. 10. Hajar ... Static and Mobile sensor-based Platforms for Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. . In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity ... Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. . (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011. 11. Hongyuan ... 11. Hongyuan Wang; Rutvij Mehta; Sam Supakkul; Lawrence Chung. Rule-based Context-aware Adaptation Using a Goal-Oriented Ontology. In Proceedings of the International ... Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. . (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011. 12. George ... Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness. . (Beijing, China). ACM, New York, NY, 2011. Workshop Summary ...

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awareness

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... there may also be detailsof which clients should be made aware even if they were notplanning to actively seek information about ... aspecific action or reaction from the client. A lack of aware- -ness of these directives may result in significant errors thatCopyright ... of increasing the likelihood that a client invokingthat method becomes aware of a directive in it. The clientmust first read the ...
... libraries.Our support for artifact knowledge is focused on mak-ing developers aware of directives associated with refer-enced artifacts (methods in this discussion). ...

Title:
iCampus: a location and context awareness pervasive environment

Keywords:
local-aware
context-aware

Abstract:
... It uses the techniques of pervasive computing such as location awareness, , context awareness and reasoning. We also introduce some practice on Internet of ...

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Microsoft Word - saga115kt-guo.doc iCampus: A Location and Context Awareness Pervasive Environment Minyi Guo Department of Computer Science and Engineering ... It uses the techniques of pervasive computing such as location awareness, , context awareness and reasoning. We also introduce some practice on Internet of ...

Title:
A laboratory method for studying activity awareness

Keywords:
activity awareness
awareness

Abstract:
... in long-term collaboration occur because of a lack of activity awareness. . Activity awareness is a broad concept that involves awareness of synchronous and asynchronous interactions over extended time periods. We ... extended time periods. We describe a procedure to evaluate activity awareness and collaborative activities in a controlled setting. The activities used ... study. We developed an experimental method to study these activity awareness problems in the laboratory. Participants worked on a simulated long-term ... real collaboration, based on participants' active engagement, lively negotiation, and awareness difficulties. We found that having the ability to define, reproduce, ... us to assess the effect of realistic conditions on activity awareness

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... failures in long-term collaboration occur because of alack of activity awareness. . Activity awareness is a broadconcept that involves awareness of synchronous andasynchronous interactions over extended time periods. Wedescribe a ... over extended time periods. Wedescribe a procedure to evaluate activity awareness andcollaborative activities in a controlled setting. The activitiesused are modeled ... field study. We developed an experimentalmethod to study these activity awareness problems in thelaboratory. Participants worked on a simulated long-termproject in ... allowed us to assess the effect ofrealistic conditions on activity awareness in remotecollaboration.Author KeywordsAwareness, activity awareness, , coordination, CSCWACM Classification KeywordsH5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., ... pervasivecollaborative phenomenon that impacts the success ofCSCW systems - activity awareness [4]. Activity awarenesssubsumes the prior notions of awareness in collaboration(e.g., workspace awareness or awareness of asynchronouscollaboration) and refers to the understanding thatcollaborators have of ... future activity.Although we designed and implemented a method to studyactivity awareness, , this approach can be used to study otheraspects of ...
... contextual events, such as collaborativebreakdowns and their effect on collaborative phenomena(awareness, , coordination, common ground, and planning),we need research methods that ... important aspects of the studiedphenomena ? in this case activity awareness. . In this paper,we describe our first instantiation of the ... phenomenon of activityawareness [4].Adopting the notion of activity to study awareness incollaborative work requires a conceptual shift from aknowledge-centered to an ... from aknowledge-centered to an activity-centered perspective.Several studies that have investigated awareness inindividuals and teams have focused on knowledgerepresentations that underlie awareness (e.g., theorizationson situation awareness by Endsley [9] and Salas [27]).These studies have focuses on ... on individual and shared mentalmodels as precursor products of team?s awareness. . Weargue that the notion of shared mental models attributesmore ...
awareness. . In fact, awareness is not only dependent onshared knowledge and common ground, but ... the larger socio-organizational context.Understanding, defining, and operationalizing the manyroles of awareness in collaboration is a key problem for thesuccess of CSCW ... on social (who is present) and action(what is s/he doing) awareness. . However, field observationshave shown that even when social and ... However, field observationshave shown that even when social and action awareness aresupported, many disruptive awareness breakdowns stilloccur. Most of these problems can be attributed to ... of these problems can be attributed to the lackof activity awareness [4]. Activity awareness refers topeople?s ability to get and maintain ?the big picture? ... ongoing collaboration while they are working togetheron long-term projects. Activity awareness is a preconditionfor effective communication, planning, coordination,decision-making, and actions during ... and actions during long-termcollaboration.With respect to the other concerns about awareness inCSCW research (e.g., workspace and social awareness) ),activity awareness is articulated at a higher level ofanalysis. Thus, it has ... many embedded contexts(e.g., work practices, culture, organizational structures,interpersonal relations). Activity awareness pertains togroup activity that takes place over an extended period ... extended period oftime. This implies that in order to maintain awareness of theentire activity, the group members need to develop andmaintain ... goals, plans,norms and roles; monitor the resources over time; andremain aware of the actual status of the execution of thegroup activity ... been conducted on activityawareness. Several authors have proposed differentcategories of awareness: : peripheral, situational, informal,group, social, workspace, etc. However, in order ... asynchronouscollaboration within long-term planned activities, we need abroader view of awareness that interprets the multiplecategories of awareness ... and their evolution in the largercontext of activities. Because activity awareness implies anextended collaboration process, it was an ideal candidatefor exploring ... framework wasadopted to identify factors that disrupted or contributed toactivity awareness, , and data was collected about the processand outcomes of ... our field study records to categorize thecircumstances under which activity awareness breakdownsoccurred. On this basis, we developed a set of collaborativescenarios ... and tool factors were identified as four fundamentalcategories classifying activity awareness problems.Leveraging this framework and its ability to identifyactivity awareness problems occurring in similar contexts,we modeled the scenarios used in ... aplanning tool. Each of the remaining scenarios then?implemented? a typical awareness breakdown observed inthe field [4], and corresponded to one of ...
... planning and activityawareness). In fact, long-term collaboration requires usersto be aware of state information about the workspace andthe shared plans that ... a large tabbedpanel (C), and the chat tool (D). Several awareness featuresare supported (e.g., small pop-ups and notifications inform theuser about ...
... Report (reporting about thewhole project).Based on the categorization of activity awareness problemsthat emerged from the fieldwork [4], we developed a set ...
... by adhering to the followingcoding scheme:1. Participants were evaluated ?fully aware? ? when theyhad spontaneously noticed the inconsistencies.2. They were evaluated ... when theyhad spontaneously noticed the inconsistencies.2. They were evaluated ?partially aware? ? if they noticedthe inconsistencies after being prompted by theconfederate ... were considered ?unaware? in all remainingcases.In the case of ?fully aware? ?, the participant directly (e.g.through explicit statements) or indirectly (e.g. ... the second and third cases, the participant didnot become spontaneously aware after being exposed to thechange. It was only after s/he ... the participant then provided any direct orindirect signs of being aware then s/he was evaluated as?partially aware? ?. Otherwise, the participant was considered?unaware?.The questionnaire (Table 3) contains ... participant was considered?unaware?.The questionnaire (Table 3) contains thirteen statementsabout activity awareness using a 7-point Likert-type scalemodeled on the rating scales proposed ...
... more than half of the situations(18/31), participants did not become aware of the changesintroduced by the scenarios. Even among the situations ... by the scenarios. Even among the situations inwhich participants were aware (13/31), only in 30% of the318situations (4/13) were changes noticed ... or the confederate. In severalsituations, the participants were not fully aware of thechanges made to the content, workspace, and the tasks ... content, workspace, and the tasks thatthey had agreed to perform.Other awareness problems appeared to be caused by thelack of a clear ... a clear shared plan during thecollaboration and maintaining a constant awareness of theplan and time needed for each activity are difficult ... and the results from our laboratory methodconfirm this. These activity awareness difficulties assessedduring the experiment appear representative of onesobserved in real ...
... partner was going to do. 5.7 0.56. I became more aware of my partner?s plans overtime.6.2 1.27. My partner and I ... miscommunications andundertake explicit actions to maintain common ground [5]and reciprocal awareness among the collaborators.The category of breakdowns related to tasks and ... to tasks and plansappeared strictly associated with participants? problems inactivity awareness. . Several breakdowns that we identifiedas part of this category ... the plan and ofthe time available, and were not fully aware of the currentstatus of the work. This essentially reveals that ...
... theexperimental simulations: engagement, lively discussion,autonomous initiatives, collaborative problem solving, andactivity awareness ... difficulties.This method also has provided us with relevant informationabout activity awareness. ... . It allowed us to assess theparticipant?s level of activity awareness within thecollaborative scenarios simulated through the confederate.Moreover, by systematically manipulating ... we were able to identify possible factors thataffect participant?s activity awareness. . Our analysis byscenario has shown that the participants? level ... scenario Completion Failure andAdditional Work. While all the participants were aware ofthe inconsistencies that occurred in the Completion Failure,none of them ... inconsistencies that occurred in the Completion Failure,none of them were aware of the breakdowns introducedduring the Additional Work scenario. This differencesuggests ... Additional Work scenario. This differencesuggests that participants were generally more aware ofmacroscopic changes occurring to objects in the workspace(Completion Failure, Role ... Data Changes) within theworkspace. Another possible factor affecting participants?level of awareness is the growing familiarity with theworkspace, partner, and tasks during ... there was an increase in the number of cases ofparticipants? awareness of said inconsistencies. This findingwas confirmed by all three type ... we observed an increased trend in the subjects?level of activity awareness over the four sessions. Thistrend can be explained by general ... to evaluate the specific role thatthese factors play in activity awareness. . Furtherinvestigation of these issues will require settings wherefactors such ... complexsystems. In fact, in our line of research we investigateactivity awareness by interleaving lab and field studies.The use of a multiplicity ...
... Table 3).Although we designed and implemented the method tostudy activity awareness, , this laboratory method might alsobe used to study other ... think-aloud method, specifically as a formative datacollection technique for activity awareness. . By asking theparticipants to think-aloud about what they think ... think theirpartner knows, we could increase our ability to monitortheir awareness knowledge level. Our study also allows forfuture work in the ... Our study also allows forfuture work in the area of awareness- -sensible designs forCSCW systems within education. Particularly, the issues ofhuman-computer ... P. L., Rosson, M.B., and McCrickard, D. S. Notification and awareness: :321synchronizing task-oriented collaborative activity. Int..Journ.. of Human-Computer Studies 58, (2003) ...
... T., Atlanta, Georgia (1997).16. Gutwin, C. & Greenberg, S., Workspace awareness forgroupware. Proc. CHI?96, ACM Press, (1996),208?209.17. Hayes-Roth, B. & Hayes-Roth, ... 1999.27. Salas, E., Prince, C., Baker, D.P., & Shrestha, L.,Situation awareness in team performance: Implicationsfor measurements and training, Human Factors, 37(1995), ... ofHuman-Computer Studies, 44 (6), (1996), 849-873.33. Weisband, S., Overcoming social awareness incomputer-supported groups: Does anonymity reallyhelp?, Proc. CSCW?94 (2) (1994), 285-297.34. ...

Title:
Managing Context-Dependent Workspace Awareness in an e-Collaboration Environment

Keywords:
Workspace awareness, context-aware notification management

Abstract:
... view of their workspaces, because each application separately handles the awareness support. In order to address this issue, we propose an ... of applications in a shared context, and (ii) a holistic awareness information management. Specifically, we present a notification model supporting a ... present a notification model supporting a contextual organization of the awareness information, in order to reduce the disruptive effect of notifications ...

References:
E. Horvitz, J. Apacible, and M. Subramani, "Balancing awareness and interruption: Investigation of notification deferral policies," in Proc. 10th Int. Conf. on User Modeling, Edinburgh, UK, 2005, pp. 433-437.
P. Dourish and V. Bellotti, "Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces," in Proc. of CSCW '92, Toronto, Canada, 1992, pp. 107-114.
C. Gutwin and S. Greenberg, "The effects of workspace awareness support on the usability of real-time distributed groupware," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 243-281, 1999.
L. Ardissono, G. Bosio, A. Goy, G. Petrone, and M. Segnan, "Context-aware notification management in an integrated collaborative environment," in Proc. of UMAP Workshop "Adaptation and Personalization for Web 2.0", Trento, 2009.

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Managing Context-Dependent Workspace Awareness in an e-Collaboration EnvironmentManaging context-dependent workspace awareness in an e-collaborationenvironmentLiliana Ardissono, Gianni Bosio, Anna Goy, Giovanna Petrone, ... fragmented view of their workspaces,because each application separately handles the awareness sup-port. In order to address this issue, we propose an ... reduce the disruptive effect of notifi-cations on the user?s attention.Keywords-Workspace awareness; ; context-aware notificationmanagement;I. INTRODUCTIONWith the large availability of wireless connectivity, broadband internet ... andtasks to be performed. Moreover, it generates a separatestream of awareness information.This lack of integration is particularly problematic inthe management of ... paper, we propose a framework supporting theholistic management of the awareness information. Specifi-cally, we focus on the presentation of awareness informationwithin a collaboration environment and we analyze some no-tification policies ... the context-dependent presentation of information.Section II analyzes the interruption and awareness sup-port in e-collaboration environments. Section III describesour proposal. Section IV ... describes some related work andSection V concludes the paper.II. WORKSPACE AWARENESS AND INTERRUPTIONThe effects of interruptions on people?s activities havebeen thoroughly ... Supported Cooperative Work, thenotifications of other people?s activities support group aware- -ness during synchronous or asynchronous collaboration [8],[9]. In order to ...
... interruptions is critical to achieve a balanced trade-offbetween interruptions and awareness. . In this perspective,we analyzed the impact on users of ... different filtering criteria for the organi-zation and presentation of the awareness information. Ourhypothesis was that the overhead on users might be ... as flexibleas to give the user an acceptable level of awareness of hercollaborators? activities.We performed a test with final users (21 ...
... shared by all the ap-plications integrated in the environment.? The awareness information should be managed by theenvironment, in order to expose ... and family duties.Within the ICE, three software components manage theworkspace awareness: :? The User Agent stores the identities and the notifi-cation ...
... work in multitasking (see, e.g.,[13]); in order to support workspace awareness effectively, ateach focus shift they should be informed about the ... it has described a framework for the holisticmanagement of workspace awareness, , focusing on a context-dependent notification model aimed at reducing ...
... 1?61, 2002.[7] E. Horvitz, J. Apacible, and M. Subramani, ?Balancing aware- -ness and interruption: Investigation of notification deferralpolicies,? in Proc. 10th ... Ed-inburgh, UK, 2005, pp. 433?437.[8] P. Dourish and V. Bellotti, ?Awareness and coordination inshared workspaces,? in Proc. of CSCW ?92, Toronto, ... L. Ardissono, G. Bosio, A. Goy, G. Petrone, and M. Segnan,?Context-aware notification management in an integratedcollaborative environment,? in Proc. of UMAP ...

Title:
Security awareness training for students at virginia commonwealth university

Keywords:
student security awareness training
security awareness training
security awareness videos

Abstract:
... Commonwealth University was given the task of raising the security awareness of incoming students. The group created several humorous in-house videos ... instructed to view them and then take a short security awareness quiz based on the points illustrated in the videos. These ...

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Security Awareness Training for Students at Virginia Commonwealth UniversitySecurity Awareness Training for Students at Virginia Commonwealth University Kay Sommers Virginia ... Commonwealth University was given the task of raising the security awareness of incoming students. The group created several humorous in-house videos ... instructed to view them and then take a short security awareness quiz based on the points illustrated in the videos. These ... Descriptors D.6.5 Security and Protection, General Terms: Security. Keywords: Security awareness training, student security awareness training, security awareness videos. 1. INTRODUCTION Security awareness training is certainly not the most exciting area, and for ...
awareness modules. Each video is viewed and then the student has ... the training modules. Communication about the existence of the security awareness training site was done at various student orientation functions held ... classes. 6. RESULTS The effectiveness of this form of security awareness training is not easy to measure. Students responded that they ...

Title:
A model for context awareness in Ubicomp

Keywords:
context awareness
context-aware adaptation

Abstract:
... design for the middleware and for the application is context awareness expressed in an adaptive behavior. The middleware manages and implements ...

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web0108lopes.dviA Model for Context Awareness in UbicompJo o Lopes, Rodrigo Souza, Cl udio GeyerPPGC/INF/Federal University of Rio ... proposed design for the middleware and forthe application is context awareness expressed in an adap-tive behavior. The middleware manages and implementsthe ... Subject DescriptorsC.2.4 [Computer Systems Organization]: Computer-Communication Networks?Distributed SystemsKeywordsUbiquitous Environment, Context Awareness, , Context-awareAdaptation1. INTRODUCTIONThe ?eld of Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) presup-poses the ... 4 discusses the EXEHDA middleware services. Sec-tion 5 details the context-aware adaptation in the EXEHDAmiddleware, introducing a service for dynamic adaptationcontrol. ...
... Service6. CASE STUDYThe application developed uses the follow-me semanticsand the context-aware adaptation, provided by the EXE-HDA services, particularly the DA Service ... to the medical area. The functions are designedto explore the context-aware adaptation control promotedby the DA Service, considering the demands of ...
... at a hospital.7. RELATED WORKCarisma [5] is based on a context-aware re?exive middle-ware for mobile applications. In Carisma the rules provideless ... and non-functional adaptations.QUO [15] is a project based on a QoS-aware middleware.One drawback of QUO architecture is that the only focusis ...
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Title:
Awareness and the WWW: an overview

Keywords:
contextual awareness
awareness
peripheral awareness
workspace awareness
group awareness

Abstract:
The notion of awareness has received a lot of attention in the CSCW literature ... also true in the particular context of the WWW, where awareness has more than one facet. One objective for this paper ... to give an overview of the field, by reviewing different awareness categories and by showing how they relate to Web-based systems. ... to introduce the papers presented at the CSCW'2000 Workshop on Awareness

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Awareness and the WWW: an Overview OIMer Liechti ATR Media Integration ... Japan ++81 774 95 1445 olMer@mic.atr.co.jp ABSTRACT The notion of awareness has received a lot of attention in the CSCW literature ... also true in the particular context of the WWW, where awareness has more than one facet. One objective for this paper ... to give an overview of the field, by reviewing different awareness categories and by showing how they relate to Web-based systems. ... to introduce the papers presented at the CSCW'2000 Workshop on Awareness and the WWW with a short summary. Keywords Awareness, , CSCW, WWW, implementation platform, activity space, group awareness, , workspace awareness, , contextual awareness, , peripheral awareness INTRODUCTION There are different ways to look at the relation ... systems, and in particular for those supporting some form of awareness between users. Another way to describe the relation between CSCW ... summary, there are two ways in which the notion of awareness relates to the WWW. Firstly, the Web can be considered ... the Web can be considered as a platform for building awareness systems. Secondly, the Web can be considered as an activity ... considered as an activity space that users can be made aware of. The papers presented at the workshop cover these two ... of these papers, we will first introduce the notion of awareness, , and look at the different ways in which it ... it can be applied to Web-based systems. Four categories of awareness will be discussed, first with references in the CSCW literature, ... framework supporting the capture, analysis and representation of Web activity. AWARENESS IN CSCW Before considering the particular case of the WWW, ... WWW, it is interesting to look at the notion of awareness in more general settings. Again, it is important to realize ... important to realize that there is no single definition for awareness, , and that the term is used in very different ... While there are certainly others, we review four categories of awareness: : group, workspace, contextual and peripheral awareness. . Note that these categories are not mutually exclusive, and ...
of some group awareness tools allows their users to maintain a peripheral awareness of ongoing activity). Group awareness Dourish and Bellotti [13] proposed one of the first definitions ... and Bellotti [13] proposed one of the first definitions for awareness in CSCW settings: "Awareness is an understanding of the activities of others, which provides ... for your own activity". This general definition applies to "group" awareness tools, which goal is to convey some information about the ... seem appropriate to contact them?). One of the first group awareness tools is the Portholes system [14], developed at Xerox PARC. ... also fit in this category. One issue raised by group awareness tools is privacy, since the activity of people has to ... the CSCW literature obviously focuses mainly on workplace applications, group awareness systems have a huge potential in domestic settings [41, 51]. ... have a huge potential in domestic settings [41, 51]. Workspace awareness One of the major benefits of group awareness tools is to facilitate the coordination among people, and to ... this initial step, other tools should be used to support awareness at a finer granularity. This situation corresponds to the notion ... finer granularity. This situation corresponds to the notion of "workspace" awareness. . It applies both to short-term tasks, performed synchronously, and ... short-term tasks, performed synchronously, and long-term tasks, performed asynchronously. Synchronous awareness: : shared editors To make remote synchronous collaboration easier, a ... views [27] or multi-user scrollbars [54]. A framework for workspace awareness has been described in [26]. Furthermore, the tradeoff between the ... (emphasis on control) and the requirements of groups (emphasis on awareness) ) has been discussed in [25], both for i) workspace ... workspace navigation, ii) artifact manipulation and iii) view representation. Asynchronous Awareness: : Persistent Shared Workspaces Collaborative tasks can take place over ... a document is being edited by somebody else). Finally, some awareness information about what has happened in the past is also ... recently, which discussions have been the most actives, etc.). Contextual awareness Contextual awareness relates to different application domains and not only to CSCW. ... systems [56, 57]. Groupware systems that support some form of awareness (e.g. group or workspace awareness) ) can in addition implement some form of contextual awareness. . In this case, they can adapt their behavior to ... both to determine i) what information users should be made aware of, and ii) how they should be made aware of it. Making appropriate decisions in these two cases helps ... appropriate decisions in these two cases helps addressing the tradeoffbetween awareness and disturbance often encountered in awareness systems [31]. For example, consider a shared workspace system used ...
... this case, it is not very sensible to make users aware of all events occurring in the system. Rather, it is ... of the CSCW systems related to the idea of contextual awareness are those which aim at facilitating unplanned interactions. The importance ... [47], but also in the real world [7, 37]. Peripheral awareness The notion of peripheral awareness denotes the way in which some systems present information to ... particularly interesting media space, because it was designed with peripheral awareness as a foremost goal. The system introduced the ideas of ... rely on traditional audio or video links to convey explicit awareness information. Instead, the information gathered by sensors on the capture ... user interfaces are used to present information seamlessly [33, 68]. AWARENESS ... IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WWW The four categories of awareness reviewed in the previous section are all meaningful in the ... can be considered both i) as an implementation platform for awareness systems, and ii) as an activity space that people can ... ii) as an activity space that people can be made aware of. The next paragraphs will consider both aspects. Group awareness tools and persistent shared workspaces will highlight the first aspect. ... will highlight the first aspect. The discussion on synchronous workspace awareness, , contextual awareness and peripheral awareness will emphasise the second aspect. Group awareness In the case of group awareness tools, we primarily envision the WWW as an implementation platform. ... is NYNEX Portholes [38], another one is @Work [63]. Workspace awareness In the previous section, we have seen how workspace awareness relates to two different kinds of systems: i) shared editors ...
... share documents and communicate in asynchronous threaded discussions. BSCW supports awareness between users through an event service. Events are triggered when ... a range of SlGGROUP Bulletin December 2000Nol 21, No.3 S awareness features (discussed at the workshop). Finally, the WebDAV protocol [67] ... at enabling distributed authoring and versioning on the WWW. Contextual awareness In the previous section, we have said that some of ... some of the systems related to the idea of contextual awareness are those fostering unplanned interactions between users. Contextual awareness is important, because the information presented to users (e.g. the ... to communicate with each other. One technical solution to enable awareness between Web users consists in augmenting the WWW with a ... in augmenting the WWW with a parallel communication infrastructure. An "awareness client" is then used in conjunction with a Web browser. ... with a Web browser. It establishes a connection to an "awareness server". Through this connection, it gets a link to the ... gets a link to the community of people using the awareness service. Somehow, the awareness client must be able to communicate with the browser, in ... supporting this process is described in [42]). Note that the awareness client can be more or less tightly bound to the ... commercial products are also available. Some of them support asynchronous awareness, , by allowing users to drop "sticky notes" on the ... (uTOK Inc.). Others tools, for example Gooey (Hypemix), support synchronous awareness and allow users to see each other in real-time when ... these tools do not make everybody happy, in particular when awareness is supported asynchronously with "sticky notes". Many Web site publishers ... inappropriate (e.g. defamatory messages posted by competitors, pornographic material). Peripheral awareness As we explained in the previous section, peripheral awareness relates to human-computer interaction design. In some systems, it is ...
... therefore important to offer them better ways to maintain an awareness of the activity on their site. Awareness tools should allow monitoring activity without effort, but should also ... w~enss3 ~ve,rs ,~ agen~ monitors Figure 1. A framework for awareness ... on the WWW 6 SlGGROUP Bulletin December 2000Nol 21, No.3 Awareness servers host collections of awareness agents (e.g. counter agent, popularity agent). These agents receive low-level ... a model (e.g. page counts, rating statistics). Users interact with awareness monitors, which connect to awareness servers, and interact with agents on these servers. Awareness monitors are responsible for creating a representation of the model ... responsible for creating a representation of the model maintained by awareness agents. The framework components are implemented in Java and are ... Development Kits (SDKs) support the creation both of i) new awareness agents and ii) new awareness monitors. We envision that users of the system would interact ... of the system would interact with a collection of different awareness monitors. Some of these monitors should be designed to support ... Some of these monitors should be designed to support peripheral awareness of activity. Others should be designed to give detailed information. ... the transition between different monitors is very easy. Examples of awareness monitors, which use abstract representations of activity, have been described ... Figure 2. Abstract representation of user feedback In addition, the awareness framework integrates support for SGF metadata [44]. SGF is an ... Web sites with structured graphs [42]. It benefits to the awareness framework in two ways. Firstly, it provides a way to ... to represent activity. Figure 3 shows a snapshot of an awareness monitor based on SGViewer, a tool developed by Mark Sifer ... is that it helps addressing the issue of scalability for awareness monitors. In many cases, it is not practical to monitor ...
... paper was written as an introduction to the Workshop on Awareness and the WWW, held at the ACM Conference on Computer ... material. The presentations have been organized into four groups: i) awareness of Web activity, ii) awareness through the Web, iii) awareness and cornmunityware and iv) awareness and 3D user interfaces. Awareness of Web activity The first three papers focus on the ... activity space, and the systems described aim at making users aware of this activity. In "Collection Awareness on the Web via Livemaps" [10], the authors propose the ... via Livemaps" [10], the authors propose the concept of "collection awareness" " to address scalability and granularity issues with existing tools. ... the Mappucino site-mapping tool. In "Look Who's Visiting? Supporting Visitor Awareness in the Web" [19], the authors look at different ways ... the authors look at different ways to make Web publishers aware of the activity occurring on their site. Three mechanisms are ... by users provide a way to discover these common interests. Awareness through the Web The next four papers consider mainly the ... the WWW as an infrastructure, which they use for supporting awareness among users. Different situations are considered, both in work-related and ... are considered, both in work-related and more casual settings. "Supporting Awareness among Virtual Teams in a Web- Based Collaborative System: The ... an overview of a Web-based collaborative system. Four types of awareness are discussed, and related features in the TeamSCOPE system are ... distributed design teams, over an extended period. In "Supporting Project Awareness on the WWW with the iScent Framework" [1], the authors ... and raise critical issues. They present a framework that supports awareness and intersubjectivity among team members. Events are automatically captured and ... and are presented in hypermedia event trails. "TeamPortal: Providing Team Awareness on the Web" [28] presents the design of a system ... representations. Finally, in "An analysis of Web Who: How does awareness of presence affect written messages?" [45], the authors look at ... presence affect written messages?" [45], the authors look at how awareness of presence affects instant messaging applications. The study analyzes messages ... study analyzes messages exchanged by students, and investigates how an awareness of both physical and virtual presence affects these messages. The ... only used for collaborative work, but also for entertainment purposes. Awareness and communityware The idea of increasing social awareness in communities is discussed in the next three papers. The ... facilitating social interaction grounded in the physical world. In "Supporting Awareness of Shared Interests and Experiences in Community" [62], the authors ... in Community" [62], the authors discuss the notion of knowledge awareness and describe technologies designed to support communities at various stages. ... collection of tools is presented. "Exploiting Context to Support Social Awareness and Social Navigation" [9] looks at ways to improve the ... to improve the experience of city visitors, by supporting social awareness and social navigation. The authors describe a Web-based system, which ... an information model representing the city via a hand-held and context-aware tourist guide. Social activity is represented in the information model, ... activity is represented in the information model, which enables mutual awareness among visitors. In "The Social Web Cockpit: Awareness and Mobile Portal for Web-Communities" [52], the authors describe a ...
... the development of a community vocabulary. It also enables social awareness and permits the notification of "interesting" web pages. Finally, the ... web pages. Finally, the use of mobile phones for supporting awareness among friends is discussed in "Awareness memo between friends with mobile phones: A field experiment" [64]. ... system is described, and results of its evaluation are reported. Awareness and 30 user interfaces The last two papers discuss issues ... first case, the focus is on specific techniques for supporting awareness within 3D worlds. In the second case, the focus is ... First, Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) are discussed in "A Formal Awareness Model for 3D Web- based Collaborative Environments" [29]. The concepts ... acuity and internal filters are introduced as extensions of established awareness models for CVEs. An interpretation of these concepts in the ... is also proposed. Finally, "Using the Theatre of Work for Awareness on the WWW" [24] focuses on the problem of creating ... within which users activities are mimicked. The general notion of awareness context is also discussed and applied to the WWW. CONCLUSION ... we have proposed an overview of the research focusing on awareness in the context of the WWW. In the first section, ... of the WWW. In the first section, four categories of awareness have been reviewed and related work in the CSCW literature ... can be seen both i) as an implementation platform for awareness systems and ii) as an activity space that people should ... as an activity space that people should be made more aware of. Some aspects of the work done by the author ... overview of the papers presented at the CSCW'2000 Workshop on Awareness and the WWW. These papers are available on-line at: http ... ://www2.rnic.atr.co.jp/dept2/awareness. REFERENCES 1. Anderson, K.M. and N.O. Bouvin. Supporting Project Awareness on the WWW with the iScent Framework. in proceedings of ... the iScent Framework. in proceedings of the International Workshop on Awareness and the WWW, held at the ACM CSCW'2000 Conference, available ... Documents People Use. in proceedings of the International Workshop on Awareness and the WWW, held at the ACM CSCW'2000 Conference, available ... 9. Cheverst, K., et aL Exploiting Context to Support Social Awareness ... and Social Navigation. in proceedings of the International Workshop on Awareness and the WWW, held at the ACM CSCW'2000 Conference, available ... December 2000, Philadelphia, PE. 10. Cohen, D., et al. Collection Awareness on the Web via Livemaps. in proceedings of the International ... Web via Livemaps. in proceedings of the International Workshop on Awareness and the WWW, held at the ACM CSCW'2000 Conference, available ...
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... In this extended abstract, we introduce the notions of collection awareness and chat in context, and present the livemap approach. A ... APPROACH As mentioned above, one of the limitations of the awareness function on Web sites that support it, is its level ... Web sites that support it, is its level of granularity. Awareness is typically provided either at the entire site level, or ... example, let us consider a typical collaboration server that supports awareness - namely Lotus Sametime Server [6]. It supports two concepts ... in most collaboration servers (sometimes under different terminology though): "people awareness" ": which can be explained as the knowledge of who ...

Keywords:
group awareness
collaboration-aware

References:
{1} J. C. Lauwers, K. A. Lantz, Collaboration Awareness in Support of Collaboration Transparency: Requireme- nts for the Next Generation of Shared Window System, In Proc. of CHI'90, April 1990, pp. 303-311.

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... relative problems pertaining to the above. Keywords: CSCW, Application Sharing, Collaboration-aware, , Group Awareness. . 1. Introdution Today, the technology environment for high speed ... A possible solution is to build a new set of collaboration-aware applications that explicitly support collaboration features because the system developers ... that explicitly support collaboration features because the system developers being aware that their application will be used collaboratively. Although many such ... commercial applications. Further, the lack of supporting infrastructure requires most collaboration-aware applications to be constructed from scratch. Application sharing system is ... does little support to the characteristics previously seen only in collaboration-aware systems, such as group awareness, , asynchronous work mode, and so on. This paper presents ... result generated by single-user CAD applications, previously seen only in collaboration-aware systems, but also supports group member?s collaborative interoperation directly. The ... single-user application would be replaced transparently by a very limited collaboration-aware equivalent which would coordinate the concurrent multi-members activities. At present, ...
... does not provide cooperative features such as coupling or group awareness. . And little work can be undertaken concurrently because participants ... feature to replace some of the Java GUI components with collaboration-aware multi-members components. This approach supports key group principles that have ... key group principles that have previously only been found in collaboration-aware ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes vol 28 no 2 March ... Engineering Notes vol 28 no 2 March 2003 Page 1applications: awareness information, concurrent work, and so on. It has, however, some ... to work at a time. They do not provide detailed awareness information about participants? actions and locations. The information is provided ... in groupware usability by creating and testing increasing sophisticated collaboration aware applications developed ad hoc, using groupware toolkits. In practice it ... collaboration work is not always the complete solution. Not all collaboration-aware systems fully realize their potential usage and, it is impossible ... sharing under it would benefit significantly. Generally, well designed collaboration aware systems provide better support for collaboration than a collaboration-transparency system. ... for collaboration than a collaboration-transparency system. However the development of collaboration-aware system using specific application domain is a difficult and time ... collaboration-transparency systems and find ways to support the features of collaboration-aware system in shared single-user applications. Our work is an attempt ... approach to collaboration support lays somewhere between collaboration-transparency systems and collaboration-aware systems. It does not provide true collaboration-transparency, but importantly, it ...
... a collaborative session. These include: session management, data exchange, group awareness, , concurrency control, dynamic joining and leaving, crash recovery, and ... application replica to execute the same order event stream. Cooperative Awareness Broadcaster Module: Used to broadcast cooperative awareness information to all participants. These features have previously been seen ... participants. These features have previously been seen only in collaboration aware systems. Client Agent The client agent's main job is to ... Used to implement various features previously seen only in collaboration aware systems. Plan Generation Module: Used to generate action plans for ... Page 2Client Agent Conference Agent Merged Input EventEvent Broadcaster Cooperative Awareness Broadcaster Collaboration Management Concurrency Control Figure 1. Architecture Negotiation Knowledge ... Perception Module Plan Generation Human-Human Interactive Interface Event Replay Cooperative Awareness Display Cooperator Input Cooperated Single-user CAD Application Other Client Agent ... message queue, and mask the locally participant's operation temporarily. Cooperative Awareness Display Module: It provides a participant with a set of ... will become visible to all other participants. Therefore the Cooperative Awareness Display Module will track the movements of locally participant's and ...
... site, by remote recipients. Semantic Event: We need to be aware of a possibility for duplicate dispatch because member inputs often ...
... provides most required functionality, such as concurrency control, and group awareness, , previously seen only in collaboration-aware systems. ACPBrush adopts a session-based model. Sessions are the frame ... cooperation takes place. Besides application cooperating, ACPBrush also integrates many awareness facilities for improving cooperative efficiency among members. In addition it ...
... approach meet the required functionality, such as concurrent work, group awareness, , and awareness of collaborative work. Compared with collaboration aware systems, the features of our approach take advantage of the ... existing, legacy single-user CAD application. References [1] J.C.Lauwers, K.A.Lantz, Collaboration Awareness in Support of Collaboration Transparency: Requireme- nts for the Next ...

Title:
Dynamic knobs for responsive power-aware computing

Keywords:
power-aware computing
accuracy-aware computing
self-aware systems

References:
J. Flinn and M. Satyanarayanan. Energy-aware adaptation for mobile applications. In Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles, page 63. ACM, 1999.
H. Hoffmann, M. Maggio, M. D. Santambrogio, A. Leva, and A. Agarwal. SEEC: A Framework for Self-aware Computing. Technical Report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2010-049, CSAIL, MIT, October 2010.
H. Hoffmann, S. Sidiroglou, M. Carbin, S. Misailovic, A. Agarwal, and M. Rinard. Power-Aware Computing with Dynamic Knobs. Technical Report TR-2010-027, CSAIL, MIT, May 2010.

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untitledDynamic Knobs for Responsive Power-Aware ComputingHenry Ho?mann ? Stelios Sidiroglou? Michael Carbin Sasa MisailovicAnant Agarwal ... of Sys-tems]: Reliability, availability, and serviceabilityGeneral Terms Performance, Reliability, ExperimentationKeywords Accuracy-aware Computing, Power-aware Comput-ing, Self-aware Systems1. IntroductionMany applications exhibit a trade-o? between the accuracy of ...
... QoSeven under the maximum anticipated load spike.6. Related WorkAdaptive, or self-aware, , computing systems have the flexibilityto meet multiple goals in ...
... perfor-mance and QoS characteristics. Eon [46] is a coordination languagefor power-aware computing that enables developers to adapt theiralgorithms to di?erent energy ... adapt theiralgorithms to di?erent energy contexts. In a similar vein, energy-aware adaptation for mobile applications [16], adapts to changingsystem demands by ...
... Journal of Computer Vision, 61(2):185?205,2005.[16] J. Flinn and M. Satyanarayanan. Energy-aware adaptation for mobileapplications. In Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM symposium ... Santambrogio, A. Leva, and A. Agar-wal. SEEC: A Framework for Self-aware Computing. Technical Re-port MIT-CSAIL-TR-2010-049, CSAIL, MIT, October 2010.[26] H. Ho?mann, ... S. Sidiroglou, M. Carbin, S. Misailovic, A. Agarwal,and M. Rinard. Power-Aware Computing with Dynamic Knobs. Tech-nical Report TR-2010-027, CSAIL, MIT, May ...

Keywords:
network-aware
social-aware

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... INTERFACES AND PRE-SENTATION]: Multimedia Information Systems?VideoGeneral TermsExperimentation, PerformanceKeywordsVideo Streaming, Prefetching, Social-aware, , Network-awarePermission to make digital or hard copies of part ... video player, which allows both local playbackof prefetched content and QoE-aware streaming. This player- instead of, e.g. the YouTube app or ...

Keywords:
cost aware
time aware

References:
Bhasin, H. et. al. 2013. Novel Time Aware Regression Testing Technique. International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering (IJCSE). 5, 05.
Walcott, K., et. al. 2006. Time aware test suite prioritization. In Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

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... General Terms Algorithms, Reliability, Verification. Keywords Regression Testing, Prioritization, Time aware, , Cost aware. . 1. INTRODUCTION When ancient Indian warriors were taught archery, ... testing and their cost. The technique is a combination of time-aware regression testing and cost-cognizant regression testing. This novel technique, which ... is based on earlier works in which the techniques of time-aware regression testing [5] and cost-cognizant regression testing [6] were proposed. ... techniques based on cost cognizant regression testing [18] and time aware regression testing [19] were analyzed and tested [5,6]. The implementation ...
... Applications, 67. [5] Bhasin, H. et. al. 2013. Novel Time Aware Regression Testing Technique. International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering ...
... Software, 85, 3 [19] Walcott, K., et. al. 2006. Time aware test suite prioritization. In Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium ...

Title:
Recognition and reasoning in an awareness support system for generation of storyboard-like views of recent activity

Keywords:
collaboration awareness
context-awareness
awareness support systems

Abstract:
<par>Awareness support system are based on formal and specific context information ... this approach we distinguish white box context, used by the awareness system for reasoning, and black box context, which can only ...

References:
Beigl, M. and Gellersen,H.W. Ambient Telepresence: Colleague Awareness in a Smart Environment. In Managing Interactions in Smart Environments, Proceedings of MANSE'99, Dublin, Ireland, 13-14 December, LNCS, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 1999.]]
Gellersen, H.W., Beigl, M., and Krull, H. The MediaCup: Awareness Technology Embedded irt an Everyday Object. In Gellersen, H.W. (Ed.) Hartdheld and Ubiquitous Computing, Proceedings of HUC'99, Karlsruhe, Germany, 27-29 September, LNCS No. 1707, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg 1999, p. 308-310.]]
Gutwin, C., Roseman, M. and Greenberg, S., "A Usability Study of Awareness Widgets in a Shared Workspace Groupware System", in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Supported Cooperative Work, p: 16-20, 1996.]]
Gutwin, C. and Greenberg, S., "Workspace Awareness", Position paper for the ACM CHI'97 Workshop on Awareness in Collaborative Systems, p: 22-27, 1997.]]
Holmquist, L.E., Falk, J. and Wigstr6m, J. Supporting Group Collaboration with Interpersonal Awareness Devices. In Personal Technologies, Vol. 3, No. l&2, 1999, p. 13-21.]]
Hudson, S. & Smith, I., "Techniques for Addressing Fundamental Privacy and Disruption Tradeoffs in Awareness Support Systems", in Proceedings of the ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, p: 248-257, 1996.]]

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Recognition and Reasoning in an Awareness Support System for Generation of Storyboard-like Views of Recent Activity ... Telecooperation Office (TecO), University of Karlsruhe {Charles, hwg} @teco.uni-karlsruhe.de ABSTRACT Awareness support system are based on formal and specific context information ... this approach we distinguish white box context, used by the awareness system for reasoning, and black box context, which can only ... condensed view of recent activity to collaboration partners. Keywords Collaboration awareness, , context-awareness, , awareness support systems, context recognition, groupware INTRODUCTION Awareness support systems are designed to provide distributed people with context ... of cues th.at people use in face-to-face settings to stay aware of their colleague?s availability for interaction and collaboration. Cues such ... for instance shared applications and shared workspaces, provide only formal awareness of other people?s activities. Formal awareness is restricted to activity mediated within the shared application and ... initiation of such communication [3]. This problem is addressed by awareness support systems, designed to provide collaborating people with awareness of each other and with cues to guide social coordination ... to guide social coordination of collaborative work. A variety of awareness support systems has been discussed in the community [3,10,12,13]. In ... been discussed in the community [3,10,12,13]. In addition to formal awareness, , these systems promote awareness of informal context. Generally, the? approach is to continuously capture ... context information we use the term black box context. Some awareness systems interpret collected context information to obtain and transmit white ... in a groupware system. In this paper we propose an awareness support system that is based on the following concepts: l ... as foundation for reasoning and processing in both the 356 awareness support system and the supported groupware. l Access to a ...
... is followed by an introduction to our new approach to awareness support. Another section describes ?implementation of a prototype, and provides ... methods have been proposed in the CSCW community to support awareness in distributed collaboration. These systems can be classified into three ... the kind of context information they use for promotion of awareness. . Formal Awareness: : Systems monitoring interaction with the computer systems used in ... with the computer systems used in the collaborative work environment. Awareness of Specific Context: Systems that obtain specific context information of ... limited scope horn specialized sensors such as location sensors. Video-mediated Awareness: : Systems capturing general context information with cameras to be ... with cameras to be mediated as black box context. Formal Awareness Systems supporting formal awareness monitor interaction of people with their local computer system and ... interaction is taken as cue for availability of a colleague. Awareness of Specific Context A range of systems have been described ... Context A range of systems have been described that support awareness based on specific context that is captured with specialized sensors, ... or to check their availability. Even more specific is the awareness information provided by the Hummingbird, a wearable appliance that hums ... are equipped with sensors to obtain context information for colleague awareness. . For instance, temperature and acceleration sensors are build into ... micro-controller embedded in the base of the cup [3]. Video-mediated Awareness Formal awareness and awareness based on specific context provide useful context for collaborative work. ... provide continuous audio and video communication in addition to formal awareness, , to mediate rich context information in remote collaboration [2,13]. ... number of problems associated with the use of videoconferencing as awareness technique: l Videoconferencing systems can not capture all the cues ...
... and other processing techniques P, 161. A NEW METHOD FOR AWARENESS SUPPORT Formal awareness, , specific context awareness, , and video- mediated context are different approaches to collect ... been introduced for each of these approaches, we are not aware ... of work combining different approaches. In particular, we are not aware of work on fusion of video-mediated information with information obtained ... those developed in the tield of multi-modal interface and context awareness, , show that communication can be improved by fusing information ... In this paper, we present a new method to support awareness based on fusion of context information from different sources in ... used to process black box context, and to generate condensed awareness information to be promoted to collaboration participants. The architecture of ...
... about their own behavior. In the research field of context awareness, , many techniques are being developed to provide computer systems ... such context is easily accessible for humans. To apply context awareness techniques in our system we introduce the white & black ... roles in the generation of a storyboard for promotion of awareness. . White box context Only the white box contexts can ...
... motion in front of the monitor? as building block for awareness information. The black box contexts can be regarded as the ... glances, which are used as metaphors in real time video-based awareness, , we propose to promote awareness in a form similar to storyboards or comic strips. The ... a view generated from recorded cues. This approach compromises peripheral awareness but has the advantage of selective access to context, of ... data fi-om the user and his work environment. The context awareness
... PA for PC access Only for PA DISCUSSION OF STORYBOARD-BASED AWARENESS The storyboards as shown in figure 5 and 6 provides ... context. Further, the recording of cues in a storyboard enables awareness support for people working non-simultaneously. Fundamental for storyboard-based awareness support is the combination of white box and black box ... well-structured way for further processing and reasoning. However, most context awareness techniques used in our system are based on perception methods ... The performance of these approaches limit the efficiency of the awareness support system. Applicability of semantic analysis approaches depend on the ... storyboard-based system proposed in this paper contributes new concepts for awareness support. First, it promotes fusion of information from different sources ...
... finally, a storyboard-like collection of cues is produced to promote awareness of recent activity in a workplace. The storyboard is multimedia, ... 4. 5. 6. Beigl, M. and Gellersen,H.W. Ambient Telepresence: Colleague Awareness in a Smart Environment. In Managing Interactions in Smart Environments, ... 1993. Gellersen, H.W., Beigl, M., and Krull, H. The MediaCup: Awareness Technology Embedded in an Everyday Object. In Gellersen, H.W. (Ed.) ... C., Roseman, M. and Greenberg, S., ?A Usability Study of Awareness Widgets in a Shared Workspace Groupware System?, in Proceedings of ... Work, p: 16-20, 1996. Guhvin, C. and Greenberg, S., ?Workspace Awareness? ?, Position paper for the ACM CHI?97 363 7. 8. ... ACM CHI?97 363 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Workshop on Awareness in Collaborative Systems, p: 22-27, 1997. Holmquist, L.E., Falk, J. ... Falk, J. and Wigstrom, J. Supporting Group Collaboration with Interpersonal Awareness Devices. In Personal Technologies, Vol. 3, No. l&2, 1999, p.13-21. ... I., ?Techniques for Addressing Fundamental Privacy and Disruption Tradeoffs in Awareness Support Systems?, in Proceedings of the ACM conference on Computer ...

Title:
Designing and deploying an information awareness interface

Keywords:
awareness
peripheral awareness
situational awareness

Abstract:
The concept of awareness has received increasing attention over the past several CSCW conferences. ... increasing attention over the past several CSCW conferences. Although many awareness interfaces have been designed and studied, most have been limited ... research prototypes. In this paper we describe Sideshow, a peripheral awareness interface that was rapidly adopted by thousands of people in ... of people in our company. Sideshow provides regularly updated peripheral awareness of a broad range of information from virtually any accessible ...

References:
Dourish, P., and Bellotti, V. (1992). Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 1992), 107--114.
Dourish, P., and Bly, S. (1992). Portholes: Supporting Awareness in a Distributed Work Group. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 1992), 541--547.
Grudin, J. (2001). Partitioning Digital Worlds: Focal and Peripheral Awareness in Multiple Monitor Use. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2001), 458--465.
MacIntyre, B., Mynatt, E., Voida, S., Hansen, K., Tullio, J., and Corso, G. (2001). Support for Multitasking and Background Awareness Using Interactive Peripheral Displays. Proceedings of the Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2001), 41--50.
McCrickard, D., Catrambone, R., and Stasko, J. (2001). Evaluating Animation in the Periphery as a Mechanism for Maintaining Awareness. Proceedings of the IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human Computer Interaction (Interact 2001), 148--156.
McCrickard, D. (1999). Maintaining Information Awareness with Irwin. Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA 1999).
Pedersen, E., and Sokoler, T. (1997). AROMA: Abstract Representation of Presence Supporting Mutual Awareness. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 1997), 51--58.
Tang, J., Yankelovich, N., Begole, J., Van Kleek, M., Li, F., and Bhalodia, J. (2001). ConNexus to Awarenex: Extending Awareness to Mobile Users. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2001), 221--228.
Zhao, Q. (2001). Opportunistic Interfaces for Promoting Community Awareness. Georgia Institute of Technology PhD thesis.

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Designing and Deploying an Information Awareness Interface JJ Cadiz, Gina Venolia, Gavin Jancke, Anoop Gupta Collaboration ... 98052 {jjcadiz; ginav; gavinj; anoop} @microsoft.com ABSTRACT The concept of awareness has received increasing attention over the past several CSCW conferences. ... increasing attention over the past several CSCW conferences. Although many awareness interfaces have been designed and studied, most have been limited ... research prototypes. In this paper we describe Sideshow, a peripheral awareness interface that was rapidly adopted by thousands of people in ... of people in our company. Sideshow provides regularly updated peripheral awareness of a broad range of information from virtually any accessible ... on feedback from a rapidly expanding user community. Keywords Situational awareness, , peripheral awareness, , awareness, , computer mediated communication, information overload 1 INTRODUCTION Interfaces that ... communication, information overload 1 INTRODUCTION Interfaces that help people stay aware of information without being overwhelmed or distracted are of key ... and objects we work with are available digitally. The word ?awareness? ? did not appear in a paper title in the ... times in the most recent five conferences. Papers focusing on awareness and notification have increased from one or two in early ... idea for an interface designed to provide users with peripheral awareness of important information. Rather than concentrate on a specific awareness issue, the research team set out to incorporate a range ... features into a versatile and extensible system for dynamic information awareness that could be easily deployed, extended by third parties, and ... corporate intranet that people would like to maintain in peripheral awareness and access with minimal effort. Second, users are willing to ... a portion of their screen space permanently for a peripheral awareness application if the information presented is easily customized and individually ... community to continually add value. The next section discusses prior awareness research that helped inform the design of Sideshow. Section 3 ...
... outlines the deployment experience and lessons learned. 2 RELATED WORK Awareness has been defined as an ?understanding of the activities of ... and productivity can be enhanced if people can maintain better awareness of the activities of the team and the events in ... in different locations [3]). The literature contains several examples of awareness interfaces. The Sideshow project focuses primarily on peripheral awareness interfaces: a class of awareness interfaces that seeks to provide awareness via software that resides in the user?s peripheral attention. Several ... projects have explored various methods and approaches to providing peripheral awareness. . Awareness on Primary Displays One area of peripheral awareness research examines methods for embedding peripheral information within a user?s ... Instant Messenger and Microsoft Windows Messenger) also use this strategy. Awareness on Secondary Displays Awareness information can also be displayed on secondary displays. Sometimes the ... background wall display) with the purposes of supporting multitasking and awareness. . Ambient Awareness Displays Ambient awareness displays use the tactic of embedding information into the user?s ... to vision). Perhaps the most famous example of an ambient awareness display is Weiser?s twirling string, which kept people aware of network traffic by twisting a small degree each time ... explored a variety of methods to display abstract representations of awareness information, ranging from paintings and landscapes to abstract haptic and ... etc.) to abstract audio (sounds of birds, waterfalls, etc.). Providing awareness via sound was also the focus the Audio Aura project ... embedded speech, music, and sound effects. These sound effects provided awareness of e-mail and presence of others and were delivered via ... controlled study of using audio and visual cues for conveying awareness information and found that while audio awareness can be especially useful when people are performing a visual ... task, audio cues can also be more distracting and annoying. Awareness on Mobile Devices Much of the literature has focused on ... Mobile Devices Much of the literature has focused on providing awareness
... have also explored the use of hand-held devices for providing awareness information while people are away from their desks. Tang?s Awarenex ... Tang?s Awarenex project [19] examines interfaces and architectures for displaying awareness information on Palm and RIM Blackberry devices. One interesting attribute ... devices next to their primary display to create a secondary awareness ... display. 3 SIDESHOW Of the various methods of providing peripheral awareness, , Sideshow provides awareness visually via a sidebar on one?s primary display that cannot ...
... it always present. Because Sideshow was supposed to utilize peripheral awareness, , Sideshow was designed to be an interface that was ...
... different types of information that people may want to stay aware of, the project?s fourth design principle was make Sideshow extensible. ... potentially large number of items users may want to stay aware of, it can be difficult for peripheral awareness displays to provide much detail about information the user is ... principle was make it scalable. People may want to stay aware of a large number of information sources, thus Sideshow needed ...
... with how Sideshow made it easy for them to stay aware of a variety of information. In particular, users seemed to ... users seemed to like how Sideshow allowed them to stay aware of important information without switching away from their primary task. ...
... they continued to use Sideshow because it helped them stay aware of a variety of information?a notion further supported in Table ... the similarly high ratings for tickets that helped people stay aware of business/productivity information (e-mail, calendar, software bugs) and personal/non-business information ...
... the right times. 4.0 3.6 0.8 Sideshow helps me stay aware of information that?s critical for me to keep track of. ... ?minimize motion? principle and strayed from the focus on peripheral awareness. . However, after the feature was deployed (and turned on ...
... 5 CONCLUDING REMARKS In this paper we described a peripheral awareness system that can deliver awareness and notifications of the status of people, objects shared by ... need for deeper research into the costs and benefits of awareness and notification. 321322ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Michael Boyle for writing the ... Lucent Technologies. http://www.bell-labs.com/org/11359/colab_prod/ 2. Dourish, P., and Bellotti, V. (1992). Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces. Proceedings of the ACM Conference ... 107-114. 3. Dourish, P., and Bly, S. (1992). Portholes: Supporting Awareness in a Distributed Work Group. Proceedings of the ACM Conference ... 6. Grudin, J. (2001). Partitioning Digital Worlds: Focal and Peripheral Awareness in Multiple Monitor Use. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on ...
... J., and Corso, G. (2001). Support for Multitasking and Background Awareness Using Interactive Peripheral Displays. Proceedings of the Symposium on User ... Evaluating Animation in the Periphery as a Mechanism for Maintaining Awareness. . Proceedings of the IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human Computer ... Interaction (Interact 2001), 148-156. 13. McCrickard, D. (1999). Maintaining Information Awareness with Irwin. Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia ... Sokoler, T. (1997). AROMA: Abstract Representation of Presence Supporting Mutual Awareness. . Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in ... Li, F., and Bhalodia, J. (2001). ConNexus to Awarenex: Extending Awareness to Mobile Users. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human ... calmtech.htm 21. Zhao, Q. (2001). Opportunistic Interfaces for Promoting Community Awareness.

Keywords:
presence awareness
situational awareness
task awareness

Abstract:
... the virtual workspace as providing affordances for behaviors. Using situational awareness theory, we hypothesized two affordances of virtual workspaces that facilitate ...

References:
Gutwin, C., Roseman, M., and Greenberg, S. 1996. A usability study of awareness widgets in a shared workspace groupware system. In Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. 258--267.
Nofi, A. 2000. Defining and measuring shared situational awareness, Center for Naval Analyses Report #CRM D0002895.A1, http://www.cna.org/documents/D0002895.A1.pdf.

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... of the virtual workspaceas providing affordances for behaviors. Using situational awareness theory, we hypothesized two affordancesof virtual workspaces that facilitate knowledge ... Human Factors, PerformanceAdditional Key Words and Phrases: Virtual teams, situational awareness, , presence awareness, , task aware- -ness, tool categoriesACM Reference Format:Malhotra, A. and Majchrzak, A. 2012. ...
... focus on collocationhas been the subject of research on situational awareness theory. According to Nofi[2000], situational awareness is ?knowing what?s going on so you can figure out ... whatto do.? When collaborators engage in behaviors that make them aware of each other?ssituation, this awareness ?reduces the effort needed to coordinate tasks and resources,ACM Transactions ... and allows anticipation of others? actions? [Gutwin et al. 1996].Situational awareness can be developed and maintained in a number of ways. ... and maintained in a number of ways. Based onthe situational awareness literature, we focus on two specific ways in which to ... we focus on two specific ways in which to developsituational awareness in virtual teams: virtual co-presence and knowledge evolutionmonitoring [Dabbish and ... Espinosa et al. 2007; Malhotra and Majchrzak2009].Virtual co-presence helps situational awareness by allowing members to feel as ifothers are in the ... Elesh 2008]). When membersshare each other?s immediate context, they become aware of each other?s moods andpsychological states [Hinds and Mortensen 2005]. ... of approaching each other for discussions and feedback [Cramton 2001].This awareness of the team members? here-and-now states helps guide members incoordinating ... members incoordinating knowledge exchange.In contrast, knowledge evolution monitoring creates situational awareness
... [Majchrzak et al. 2007]. By observing others? knowledgeevolution, members become aware of alternative perspectives that might lead to newcreative solutions to ... newcreative solutions to the task [Boland and Tenkasi 1995]. This awareness of others?knowledge evolution, then, helps members to assess progress and ... inmoving the team toward meeting its objectives.Therefore, based on situational awareness theory, when virtual team members areable to create virtual co-presence ...
... tools?via interactional expertiseand via boundary objects?may affect the two situational awareness affordances thatare related to virtual team member knowledge coordination. However, ... exchange, and the two affordancesrepresent quite different aspects of situational awareness, , there is reason to believethat specific trading zones may ... to believethat specific trading zones may only affect specific situational awareness affordances.Research on online communities offers some evidence for one of ... one of the relationshipsbetween a trading zone toolset and situational awareness affordance: between thetrading zone tools for exchanging interactional expertise and ... may foster the situationalawareness affordance of virtual co-presence, the situational awareness affordance ofACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Vol. 3, No. ...
... the extent to which the virtual workspace afforded thetwo situational awareness behaviors. The individual-level responses were empiricallydemonstrated to be analyzable at ...
... were supported. The statistically signif-icant paths from the two situational awareness affordances to Knowledge CoordinationSatisfaction (R2 = .35) indicates support for ...
... in virtual teams is affected by two affordances for situa-tional awareness that have not been previously applied to the virtual team ...
... ROSEMAN, M., AND GREENBERG, S. 1996. A usability study of awareness widgets in a sharedworkspace groupware system. In Proceedings of the ...
... 23, 2, 242?266.NOFI, A. 2000. Defining and measuring shared situational awareness, , Center for Naval Analyses Report#CRM D0002895.A1, http://www.cna.org/documents/D0002895.A1.pdf.NUNAMAKER, JR., J. ...

Title:
Context-aware apps with the Zonezz platform

Keywords:
location-awareness
context-awareness

Abstract:
... central service. Other apps can use this platform to create context-awareness. . We show the benefits of this platform with the ... the benefits of this platform with the help of a context-aware

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Context-aware Apps with the Zonezz PlatformContext-aware Apps with the Zonezz Platform J rg Roth Univ. of Appl. ... central service. Other apps can use this platform to create context-awareness. . We show the benefits of this platform with the ... the benefits of this platform with the help of a context-aware calendar tool. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.2 [Design Tools and ... Techniques]: Software Libraries General Terms Algorithms, Design, Human Factors Keywords Context-awareness, , location-awareness, , mobile application 1. INTRODUCTION The idea of context-awareness is nearly as old as mobile devices. If a mobile ... RELATED WORK Many projects in the area of context- or location-awareness focus on positioning issues (e.g. [12]). Indoors it still is ...
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... daily dates and tasks. Our goal was to make it context-aware. . We identified three mecha-nisms that can be affected by ... a category such as 'job', 'to buy' or 'hobby'. In non-context-aware calendars, these categories are primarily used as display filter and ...
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An infrastructure for context-awareness based on first order logic

Keywords:
Context-awareness

Abstract:
... task. Applications in pervasive and mobile environments need to be context-aware so that they can adapt themselves to rapidly changing situations. ... universal quantifiers. Based on this model, an infrastructure to enable context-awareness in ubiquitous computing environments has been developed. The infrastructure allows ... allows the easy development and deployment of various sensors and context-aware applications. It also allows distributed reasoning to take place. This ...

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ORIGINAL ARTICLEAnand Ranganathan Roy H. CampbellAn infrastructure for context-awareness basedon first order logicReceived: 9 November 2002 / Accepted: 1 ... a di?culttask. Applications in pervasive and mobile environmentsneed to be context-aware so that they can adapt them-selves to rapidly changing situations. ... and universal quanti?ers.Based on this model, an infrastructure to enable context-awareness in ubiquitous computing environments hasbeen developed. The infrastructure allows the ... The infrastructure allows the easydevelopment and deployment of various sensors andcontext-aware applications. It also allows distributedreasoning to take place. This context ... infrastructure ispart of our smart spaces framework for ubiquitouscomputing, Gaia.Keywords Context-awareness Infrastructure Logic1 IntroductionWebster?s dictionary describes context as the ... applicationcontexts (email, websites visited) and system contexts(network tra?c, status of printers).Context-aware applications in pervasive environ-ments can tailor their operation to the ... has gone into developing infrastructures that en-able applications to be context-aware. . [1, 2, 4, 16, 28,29].We have built a system ... behaviours in di?erent contexts easily.One of the challenges in promoting context-aware- -ness is developing a ?exible and expressive model forcontext. We ...
... an infrastructure that enables applications inubiquitous computing environments to be context-aware. . The infrastructure provides ways to perform thevarious operations de?ned ... of the goals of the infrastructure is to enabledevelopers of context-aware applications to specify thedi?erent behaviours of the application in di?erent ... of a large set ofrules.We have integrated our infrastructure for context-awareness into Gaia [20, 21], our smart spaces frame-work. Smart spaces ...
... anyContext Provider the same way. This greatly aids thedevelopment of context-aware applications.Context Providers provide a query interface forapplications to get the ...
... con-text expressions (as described in Sect. 2.2).4.2 Context Consumers (or Context-Aware Applications)Context Consumers consume various types of contextsand adapt their behaviour ... for events that are sent by Context Providers.The infrastructure for context-awareness makes itvery easy to develop and deploy context aware appli-cations. It is easy for applications to get the contextsthey ...
... the informationwehave available.3595 Specifying context-sensitive behaviour for applicationsIn our architecture, context-aware applications can fol-low di?erent behaviours in di?erent contexts. Theseapplications specify ... method to be called at acertain context. For example, a context-aware jukeboxcould specify that whenever Bob enters the room, theplayRockMusic() method ... whenever Bob enters the room, theplayRockMusic() method must be invoked. Context-aware applications are driven by context?changes incontext trigger changes in the ... by context?changes incontext trigger changes in the behaviour of the appli-cation.Context-aware applications have a con?guration ?lethat associates certain contexts with a ... current state of the application.In our current implementation, developers of context-aware applications need to write such a con?guration ?lefor describing behaviour ...
... adding or deleting nodes into aposet [26, 30].5.5 Developing a context-aware applicationOne of the goals of the architecture is to make ... architecture is to make it easy forapplication developers to write context-aware applica-tions. Using the architecture of Context Consumersdescribed above, the job ... Using the architecture of Context Consumersdescribed above, the job of context-aware applicationdevelopers is indeed very easy.The developer has to specify the ... context infra-structure has allowed us to develop a number of context-aware applications very easily. Some context-awareapplications we have developed are a ... chat application [22] and acontext-sensitive reminder service.We have also integrated context-awareness into oursecurity framework [19]. The automated reasoningcapabilities provided by our ... de?ning context-awarecomputing, identifyingwhat kind of support was requiredfor building context aware applications anddeveloping aninfrastructure that enabled rapid prototyping of context-aware applications [1]. While the Context Toolkit doesprovide a starting point ...
... [3], Brumitt et al. describe their experiences with362multi-modal interactions in context-aware environmentsand how such an environment can respond automati-cally to di?erent ... runtime context data acquisition,monitoring and detection. Applications can specifybehaviour using context-aware IDL. Our architectureprovides a more generic way of specifying the ... Our architectureprovides a more generic way of specifying the behaviourof context-aware applications using ?rst order logic.8 Conclusions and future workIn this ... basis of this model, wehave developed an infrastructure for enabling context-awareness in ubiquitous computing environments. Thisinfrastructure supports the easy development and ... computing environments. Thisinfrastructure supports the easy development and thedeployment of context-aware applications. It is easy forapplications to specify rules of behaviour ... users? inten-tions. We are also working on better interfaces fordeveloping context-aware applications, so that any or-dinary individual can program his own ...
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... Brown PJ (1996) The Stick-e document: a framework for cre-ating context-aware applications. In: Proceedings of the Elec-tronic Publishing Conference ?96, Laxenburg, ... N, Kobayshi K and Mase K(1998) Progress of C-MAP: a context-aware mobile assistant.In: Proceedings of the AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium onIntelligent ...