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Eurowearable '03 at the University of Birmingham, 4th & 5th September 2003

Context Computing

Context can play a large part in wearable computing. A users context is made up of items from their environment and parts of their personality, for example a users context might include their Location, the Object that they are interacting with, their personal Diary for the day, what their personal Preferences are etc. By sensing these type of Context Identifiers a wearable computer can aid the user in many different ways. At Birmingham we are working on systems that alter the information presented to a user as their Context changes.

In our first system only Location was used as a Context Identifier, we are now working on systems that use many more indicators of context.

Recent publications from this project

Bristow, H. W., Baber, C., Cross, J., (2002), “Evaluating contextual information for wearable computing” The Sixth International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp 175-186 (pdf)

Knight, J. F., Baber, C., Schwirtz, A., Bristow, H. W., (2002), “The Comfort Assessment of Wearable Computers” The Sixth International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp 65-72 (pdf)

Bristow, H. W., Baber, C., Cross, J., Woolley, S., Jones, M., (2002), “Mininal Interaction for Mobile Tourism Computers” The Workshop "Mobile Tourism Support" at MobileHCI 2002, pp (pdf)

If you have any comments about this webpage, please contact Huw Bristow. Last updated 14-Nov-2003