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Two differing context-aware projects are described in this paper as a basis for exploring and better understanding the nature of context and contextaware applications. The investigation reveals that although indeed a useful concept, better supporting infrastructure is required before it can become a feasible mainstream technology. In particular, we propose the concept of a context information service to address this need, and define the general characteristics that such a service should exhibit.
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The “Mobile Computing in Fieldwork Environments” project [19] was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Technology Applications Programme. (JTAP), grant number JTAP-3/217. We appreciate the help of all the ecologists and MSc students from Manchester Metropolitan University that gave us an insight into how electronic tools could be used in the field, and in particular Alan Birkett and Kathy Pinkney for pioneering and continuing to use our prototype tools.
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Pascoe, J., Ryan, N., Morse, D. (1999). Issues in Developing Context-Aware Computing. In: Gellersen, HW. (eds) Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing. HUC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1707. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48157-5_20
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