Context-Aware Computing
Context-aware computing centers on the concept of using information about an end user or object’s environment, activities connections and preferences to improve the quality of interaction with that end user. The end user may be a customer, business partner or employee. A contextually aware system anticipates the user’s needs and proactively serves up the most appropriate and customized content, product or service. Gartner predicts that by 2013, more than half of Fortune 500 companies will have context-aware computing initiatives and by 2016, one-third of worldwide mobile consumer marketing will be context-awareness-based.
Source: Gartner
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Karen Jones 4:21 pm on September 7, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
• I believe that context-aware computing could provide the ultimate expression of personalized online learning. By interacting with a Web 3.0 browser, students could develop unique Internet profiles and personal learning environments (PLN) that were based on their browsing history. tailored to match their needs and learning preferences. As well, learners with common interests could congregate into online communities for different types of
collaboration.
David William Price 7:10 am on September 8, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
This could be interesting…. but I think of the user interfaces that try to do this and I often find they really get in my way. I hate it when the computer software thinks it’s more intelligent than I am and I end up wasting time trying to get around it. I think part of the problem is that people who do training often focus on features and decision trees instead of simply providing straight-forward tutorials based on common use cases. Give me an example and I will be able to quickly analogize it to my problem.
wongte 6:37 am on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I love the opportunities of context-aware computing for an ESL class. In a situation where students are not able, due to lack of language and/or language skills context-aware computing can be the solution to that problem. It eliminates the need for one-on-one learning with person-to-person (which I find great in theory but unrealistic in reality).