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Survey on context-awareness in ubiquitous media

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Context-awareness assists ubiquitous media applications in discovering the changeable contextual information and adapting their behaviors accordingly. A wide spectrum of context-aware schemes have been proposed over the last decade. However, most of them provide partial functionalities of context-awareness in ubiquitous media applications. They are specified to a certain task and lack of systematic research on context-awareness. To this end, this survey aims at answering how close we are to developing context-aware applications in ubiquitous media in a systematic manner. This survey proposes a reference framework to identify key functionalities of context-awareness. Then, it investigates the state-of-the-art advances in every functionality of context-awareness. Finally, it points out potential directions in context-awareness research and tools for building and measuring context-aware ubiquitous media systems.

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  4. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61103185, 61003247 and 61073118), the Start-up Foundation of Nanjing Normal University (Grant No. 2011119XGQ0072), and Natural Science Foundation of the Higher Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province, China (Grant No. 11KJB520009). This work is also supported by Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK211005).

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Zhang, D., Huang, H., Lai, CF. et al. Survey on context-awareness in ubiquitous media. Multimed Tools Appl 67, 179–211 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-011-0940-9

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