scholarly journals Challenges and Opportunities of Context-Aware Information Access

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.J.F. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Information Access ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Service-Oriented Architectures for Context-Aware Information Retrieval and Access

2010 ◽  
pp. 1549-1560
Author(s):  
Lu Yan
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Exchange Process ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Service Oriented Architectures ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems ◽  
To Come ◽  
Process Context

Humans are quite successful at conveying ideas to each other and retrieving information from interactions appropriately. This is due to many factors: the richness of the language they share, the common understanding of how the world works, and an implicit understanding of everyday situations (Dey & Abowd, 1999). When humans talk with humans, they are able to use implicit situational information (i.e., context) to enhance the information exchange process. Context (Cool & Spink, 2002) plays a vital part in adaptive and personalized information retrieval and access. Unfortunately, computer communications lacks this ability to provide auxiliary context in addition to the substantial content of information. As computers are becoming more and more ubiquitous and mobile, there is a need and possibility to provide information “personalized, any time, and anywhere” (ITU, 2006). In these scenarios, large amounts of information circulate in order to create smart and proactive environments that will significantly enhance both the work and leisure experiences of people. Context-awareness plays an important role to enable personalized information retrieval and access according to the current situation with minimal human intervention. Although context-aware information retrieval systems have been researched for a decade (Korkea-aho, 2000), the rise of mobile and ubiquitous computing put new challenges to issue, and therefore we are motivated to come up with new solutions to achieve non-intrusive, personalized information access on the mobile service platforms and heterogeneous wireless environments.

Economics of Resource Sharing via Library Consortia

2021 ◽  
pp. 2035-2047
Author(s):  
Arnold Mwanzu
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Library Consortia ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Comprehensive Comparison ◽  
Resources Sharing

The chapter seeks to discuss the role played by library consortia in resource sharing among libraries, media organizations, and archives. It will outline the existing models that are functioning effectively especially in the developing countries and discuss the best practices. The target audience being libraries, archives, and media. While unravelling the economics of resources sharing among the information players, the chapter will address the challenges and opportunities in supporting research, teaching, and learning. The value of the book chapter is that it will give an insight into the development of library consortia and their significance as opportunities to provide equal access to research in libraries, archives, and media. The chapter will also provide a comprehensive comparison between library consortia in developing countries and developed countries highlighting how resource sharing in developing countries has helped to bridge the gap of information access, thereby showing progressive development.

A General Context-Aware Framework for Improved Human-System Interactions

AI Magazine ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy Lovell Pfautz ◽  
Gabriel Ganberg ◽  
Adam Fouse ◽  
Nathan Schurr
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
General Context ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Human System ◽  
User Intent ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

For humans and automation to effectively collaborate and perform tasks, all participants need access to a common representation of potentially relevant situational information, or context. This article describes a general framework for building context-aware interactive intelligent systems that comprises three major functions: (1) capture human-system interactions and infer implicit context; (2) analyze and predict user intent and goals; and (3) provide effective augmentation or mitigation strategies to improve performance, such as delivering timely, personalized information and recommendations, adjusting levels of automation, or adapting visualizations. Our goal is to develop an approach that enables humans to interact with automation more intuitively and naturally that is reusable across domains by modeling context and algorithms at a higher-level of abstraction. We first provide an operational definition of context and discuss challenges and opportunities for exploiting context. We then describe our current work towards a general platform that supports developing context-aware applications in a variety of domains. We then explore an example use case illustrating how our framework can facilitate personalized collaboration within an information management and decision support tool. Future work includes evaluating our framework.

scholarly journals Context in a wider context

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (Mobile Learning) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Traxler
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
Personal Mobile Devices

This paper attempts to review and reconsider the role of context in mobile learning and starts by outlining definitions of context-aware mobile learning as the technologies have become more mature, more robust and more widely available and as the notion of context has become progressively richer. The future role of context-aware mobile learning is considered within the context of the future of mobile learning as it moves from the challenges and opportunities of pedagogy and technology to the challenges and opportunities of policy, scale, sustainability, equity and engagement with augmented reality, «blended learning», «learner devices», «user-generated contexts» and the «internet of things». This is essentially a perspective on mobile learning, and other forms of technology-enhanced learning (TEL), where educators and their institutions set the agenda and manage change. There are, however, other perspectives on context. The increasing availability and use of smart-phones and other personal mobile devices with similar powerful functionality means that the experience of context for many people, in the form of personalized or location-based services, is an increasingly social and informal experience, rather than a specialist or educational experience. This is part of the transformative impact of mobility and connectedness on our societies brought about by these universal, ubiquitous and pervasive technologies. This paper contributes a revised understanding of context in the wider context (sic) of the transformations taking place in our societies. These are subtle but pervasive transformations of jobs, work and the economy, of our sense of time, space and place, of knowing and learning, and of community and identity. This leads to a radical reconsideration of context as the notions of ‹self› and ‹other› are transformed.

Service-Oriented Architectures for Context-Aware Information Retrieval and Access

2011 ◽  
pp. 220-231
Author(s):  
Lu Yan
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Exchange Process ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Service Oriented Architectures ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems ◽  
To Come ◽  
Process Context

Humans are quite successful at conveying ideas to each other and retrieving information from interactions appropriately. This is due to many factors: the richness of the language they share, the common understanding of how the world works, and an implicit understanding of everyday situations (Dey & Abowd, 1999). When humans talk with humans, they are able to use implicit situational information (i.e., context) to enhance the information exchange process. Context (Cool & Spink, 2002) plays a vital part in adaptive and personalized information retrieval and access. Unfortunately, computer communications lacks this ability to provide auxiliary context in addition to the substantial content of information. As computers are becoming more and more ubiquitous and mobile, there is a need and possibility to provide information “personalized, any time, and anywhere” (ITU, 2006). In these scenarios, large amounts of information circulate in order to create smart and proactive environments that will significantly enhance both the work and leisure experiences of people. Context-awareness plays an important role to enable personalized information retrieval and access according to the current situation with minimal human intervention. Although context-aware information retrieval systems have been researched for a decade (Korkea-aho, 2000), the rise of mobile and ubiquitous computing put new challenges to issue, and therefore we are motivated to come up with new solutions to achieve non-intrusive, personalized information access on the mobile service platforms and heterogeneous wireless environments.

Metaphors and Context-Aware Information Access

2001 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Coschurba ◽  
Joachim Baumann ◽  
Uwe Kubach ◽  
Alexander Leonhardi
Keyword(s):  
Information Access ◽  
Context Aware
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