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Towards Well-Founded and Richer Context-Awareness Conceptual Models

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We observe that context-aware systems currently developed in one domain or another are mostly technology-driven, and not so much user-centric. They are often not based on a thorough analysis of the effects they produce when interacting with their context, especially regarding the contribution of these effects to user needs. We argue that a conceptual framework is needed to support such analyses. In this paper we identify the concepts necessary to define important structural aspects of a context-aware system and its context, and to formulate generalizations about effects of the interaction of the context-aware system and its context related to user needs. Using this conceptual framework, we classify context-aware systems in terms of the kinds of context assumptions that we can make at design time, and we discuss several threats to validity of a context-aware system. We believe that the proposed conceptual framework can help to better assess the utility concerning a context-aware system design. We use various examples of context-aware applications to illustrate our ideas.

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  1. Faculty of Information Sciences, University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Boris Shishkov

  2. Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Boris Shishkov

  3. Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Boris Shishkov

  4. Institute IICREST, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Boris Shishkov

  5. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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Shishkov, B., van Sinderen, M. (2021). Towards Well-Founded and Richer Context-Awareness Conceptual Models. In: Shishkov, B. (eds) Business Modeling and Software Design. BMSD 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 422. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79976-2_7

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