Towards a Multidisciplinary User-Centric Design Framework for Context-Aware Applications
Nicholas A. Bradley, Mark David Dunlop · Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde) · 2003
Introduction In recent years, there has been an escalation of application areas of mobile context-aware computing, all of which offer great potential to support and enhance the activities of people in their daily lives. Our work has been motivated by a particularly challenging activity: supporting visually impaired people to navigate through new surroundings - an often vexatious task with traditional mobility aids. Accessing information and novel services anytime and anywhere could be realised through technologies distributed in a ubiquitous manner. The capabilities of context-aware technology are well presented by Pascoe [1], who separated between contextual sensing, adaptation, resource discovery and environment augmentation. Wireless user communities, for instance, could allow visually impaired users to share experiences, problems encountered along a route and solutions to negotiate hazards by electronically augmenting the route. Additionally, a mobile device could, say, automatica