SUPPORTING DIFFERENT PATTERNS OF INTERACTION THROUGH CONTEXT-AWARE DATA MANAGEMENT
Keywords:
Context-Awareness, Patterns of Interaction, Multi-Channel Access, Mobile Tourist Information Systems, Version ModelsAbstract
Ubiquitous and mobile computing often introduce novel modes of interaction with dier- ent interaction patterns than those typical of traditional desktop applications. Therefore, there is a need to extend general models and systems for context-awareness to include adaptation of interaction styles to context. We present an object-oriented data manage- ment system that supports context-awareness through a notion of multi-variant objects and describe how it was used to implement context-aware interaction patterns. Our approach was motivated by our experiences of developing a mobile application that of- fered an interface based on a set of interactive paper documents alongside a regular web interface and we use this example to explain the issues and our solution in detail.
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