Paper Info
Title
The context toolkit: aiding the development of context-enabled applications
Abstract
Context-enabled applications are just emerging and promisericher interaction by taking environmental context into account.However, they are difficult to build due to their distributednature and the use of unconventional sensors. The concepts oftoolkits and widget libraries in graphical user interfaces has beentremendously successtil, allowing programmers to leverage offexisting building blocks to build interactive systems more easily.We introduce the concept of context widgets that mediate betweenthe environment and the application in the same way graphicalwidgets mediate between the user and the application. We illustratethe concept of context widgets with the beginnings of a widgetlibrary we have developed for sensing presence, identity andactivity of people and things. We assess the success of ourapproach with two example context-enabled applications we havebuilt and an existing application to which we have addedcontext-sensing capabilities.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1145/302979.303126
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
context widget,context toolkit,betweenthe environment,environmental context,beentremendously successtil,illustratethe concept,context-enabled application,concepts oftoolkits,example context-enabled application,graphical user interface,existing application,graphic user interface,application development,ubiquitous computing
World Wide Web,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Graphical user interface,Ubiquitous computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-201-48559-1
611
131.63
References 
Authors
10
3
Search Limit
100611
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Salber12421298.39
Anind Dey211484959.91
Gregory D. Abowd3119791503.13