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Wearable Comp. / Nokia / Starlab Nv / Starlab Research Laboratories / Ubiquitous Comp / TecO / Esprit / AI Laboratory / /
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Germany / Belgium / United Kingdom / Finland / /
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USD / / /
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Product Issues / /
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stable User / AI Laboratory / University of Brussels / Limburg University / Manchester Metropolitan University / If building / University of Ulm / University of Karlsruhe / In building / /
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consumer electronics / cue processing / context processing / distributed context-aware systems / actual device / little processing power / metal ball switches / project Web page / retail price / add-on technology / neural networks / gas concentration / prototypical sensing device / smart devices / audio processing / enormous energy consumption / application developer / battery-driven mobile devices / stationary devices / ultra-mobile computing / little processing / energy consumption / adaptive context awareness systems / context-aware applications / buffer algorithm / minimal energy / minimal processing / possible sensing technologies / location-aware devices / gas sensors / context-aware devices / computing / host device / context-aware systems / /
Organization
University of Karlsruhe / Limburg University / European Commission / University of Brussels / Manchester Metropolitan University / University of Ulm / /
Person
O. Cakmakci / P. J. Brown / Van Laerhoven / Kofi Asante Aidoo / Ozan Cakmakci / Walter Van de Velde / K. Van Laerhoven / Michael Beigl / Albrecht Schmidt / /
Position
General / operative / Senator / research assistant / /
Abstract In this article smart appliances are characterized as devices that are attentive to their environment. We introduce a terminology for situation, sensor data, context, and context-aware applications because it is important to gain a thorough understanding of these concepts to successfully build such artifacts. In the article the relation between a real-world situation and the data read by sensors is discussed; furthermore, an