The Contextual Map
Robert Schmohl · 2010
Context-aware computing generally focuses on abstracting the situation of individual entities, such as persons, places and objects, making this information available for further computational exploitation. With those resulting entities' contexts available, the degree of alikeness of those contexts poses an interesting piece of information. For this purpose, we propose a context model capable of easily identifying affinities among contexts. This multi-dimensional context model is inspired by geographical map models, which are generally applicable for geographical proximity management. We have discovered that geographical proximity can be leveraged to contextual proximity depicting the alikeness of different contexts. Hence, our goal is to apply proximity detection methods from the location-aware computing domain on context-aware computing.