TY - GEN
T1 - Middleware support for transparency and user control in context-aware systems
AU - Hardian, Bob
N1 - Funding Information:
Fig. 2 Random natural frequency (rad/s) of sandwich plates for a first, b second, and c third natural frequencies with skew angle, (ϕ) = 0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, and 60° Acknowledgements The first and second authors would like to acknowledge the financial support received from MHRD GOI during this research work.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Pervasive computing environments require applications that reduce user distraction from other tasks. Context-awareness attempts to address this problem by making applications more adaptive and autonomous. Context-aware pervasive systems rely on information about the context and user preferences to guide their behaviour. However, context-aware applications do not always behave as users expect, and can cause users to feel loss of control over their applications. To mitigate these problems, context-aware systems must provide mechanisms to strike a suitable balance between user control and software autonomy. This has implications on the way that middleware for context-aware systems must be designed. Most current middleware solutions for context aware systems support the gathering and management of context information, while some also support the management and evaluation of user preferences; however, few middleware solutions address the issue of providing transparency (to facilitate user understanding of application actions) and user control. This paper describes the most relevant work in this area, as well as ongoing research on extending a previously developed middleware to better support transparency and control.
AB - Pervasive computing environments require applications that reduce user distraction from other tasks. Context-awareness attempts to address this problem by making applications more adaptive and autonomous. Context-aware pervasive systems rely on information about the context and user preferences to guide their behaviour. However, context-aware applications do not always behave as users expect, and can cause users to feel loss of control over their applications. To mitigate these problems, context-aware systems must provide mechanisms to strike a suitable balance between user control and software autonomy. This has implications on the way that middleware for context-aware systems must be designed. Most current middleware solutions for context aware systems support the gathering and management of context information, while some also support the management and evaluation of user preferences; however, few middleware solutions address the issue of providing transparency (to facilitate user understanding of application actions) and user control. This paper describes the most relevant work in this area, as well as ongoing research on extending a previously developed middleware to better support transparency and control.
KW - Autonomic computing
KW - Context awareness
KW - Pervasive computing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34547192752&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1169100.1169104
DO - 10.1145/1169100.1169104
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34547192752
SN - 1595934189
SN - 9781595934185
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series - Proc. of the 3rd Int. Middleware Doctoral Symp., MDS 2006, held at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th Int. Middleware Conference
T2 - 3rd International Middleware Doctoral Symposium, MDS 2006, held at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference
Y2 - 27 November 2006 through 1 December 2006
ER -