Exploring Context-aware Information Push

Cheverst, Keith and Mitchell, Keith and Davies, Nigel (2002) Exploring Context-aware Information Push. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 6 (4). pp. 276-281. ISSN 1617-4909

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Abstract

Despite much interest over recent years in the area of context-aware computing, there are still a number of significant gaps in our understanding of the HCI issues associated with such systems. One particular issue that remains relatively unexplored is how to design around the apparently conflicting goals of adapting to changes in context while at the same time adhering to the principle of predictability. In this paper, we describe our exploration into this issue through two alternative designs of an interactive context-aware tourist guide. One original design was based around information pull, i.e. the emphasis is on the user to decide when context-aware information is presented. Our second design incorporates the notion of information push whereby the actual presentation of context-aware information is triggered by contextual events, e.g. changes in the user’s location or changes to the opening times of attractions. Through the evaluation of these alternative designs we hope to gain a better understanding of the usability implications relating to push vs. pull in both this specific domain and in interactive context-aware systems in general.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/computingcommunicationsandict
Subjects:
?? context awareevaluation information pullinformation push interaction design mobilitycomputing, communications and icthardware and architecturemanagement science and operations researchcomputer science applicationsqa75 electronic computers. computer scienc ??
ID Code:
55997
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Deposited On:
19 Jul 2012 15:40
Refereed?:
Yes
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Published
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