Out of Context: Readings
A Course on Computer Systems That Adapt To, and Learn From, Context
Instructors: Henry Lieberman Bradley Rhodes
Human use of context
- "Pragmatics", Stephen C. Levinson, Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Chapter 2: Deixis.
- "Cognition In The Wild", Edwin Hutchins, MIT Press, 1995. p. 164-173
(discussion of use of history and environment in planning and action).
- "Intentions in Communication", Philip R. Cohen,
Jerry Morgan, and Martha E. Pollack (eds.). MIT Press. Chapter 5: "Plans
as Complex Mental Attitudes", Martha E. Pollack.
Applications that provide context
- N. S. Ryan, J. Pascoe and D. R. Morse,
"Enhanced Reality Fieldwork: the Context-aware Archaeological Assisstant",
in V. Gaffney, M. van Leusen and S. Exxon (eds.) Computer Applications
in Archaeology 1997, 1998
- Rhodes, B, "Building a Contextually Aware Associative Memory." Unpublished
draft, 1998.
- S. Elo, "PLUM:
Contextualizing News for Communities Through Augmentation". MS Thesis.
- Feiner, S., MacIntyre, B., Hollerer, T., Webster, A. "A Touring
Machine: Prototyping 3D Mobile Augmented REality Systems for Exploring the
Urban Environment." Proceedings of the First Annual International
Symposium on Wearable Computing, Cambridge, MA, October 13-14, 1997.
pp. 74-81.
- The
Wearable Remembrance Agent: A system for augmented memory (html), Bradley J. Rhodes, in
Personal Technologies Journal Special Issue on Wearable Computing ,
Personal Technologies (1997) 1(4), pp. 218-224. Compressed
Postscript .
Applications that use context
- Hull, R., Neaves, P., Bedford-Roberts, J. "Towards Situated
Computing." Proceedings of the First Annual International Symposium on
Wearable Computing, Cambridge, MA, October 13-14, 1997. pp. 74-81.
- P. J. Brown, J. D. Bovey, and X. Chen, "Context-aware
applications: from the laboratory to the marketplace," IEEE Personal
Communications, 4(5), October 1997.
- Nomadic
Radio: Scaleable and Contextual Notification for Wearable Audio
Messaging (postscript). Nitin Sawhney and Chris Schmandt. To appear in the Proceedings of
the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Pittsburgh,
May 15-20, 1999.
Sensing context
- Auditory
Context Awareness in Wearable Computing (postscript). Brian Clarkson,
Nitin Sawhney, and Alex Pentland.
Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, San Francisco, November 5-6,
1998. (pdf)
- Visual
Contextual Awareness in Wearable Computing (html), Thad Starner ,
Bernt Schiele ,
and Alex Pentland
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 19-20 October 1998, pp. 50-57. (Compressed
Postscript)
- StartleCam:
A Cybernetic Wearable Camera (compressed postscript), J. Healey and R. W. Picard. Proceedings of the
International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
19-20 October 1998, pp. 42-49.
- DyPERS:
Dynamic Personal Enhanced Reality System (html), Tony Jebara, Bernt Schiele, Nuria Oliver and Alex Pentland. Vision and
Modeling Technical Report #463, May 1998.
(compressed postscript)