Out of Context: Readings

A Course on Computer Systems That Adapt To, and Learn From, Context

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 Unpublished draft, 1998.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)