Readings

Human use of context

Levinson, Stephen C. “Deixis.” Chap. 2 in Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Hutchins, Edwin. “Cognition In The Wild.” MIT Press, 1995, 164-173. (discussion of use of history and environment in planning and action).

Pollack, Martha E. “Plans as Complex Mental Attitudes.” Chap.5 in Intentions in Communication. Edited by Philip R. Cohen, Jerry Morgan, and Martha E. Pollack. MIT Press.

Applications that provide context

Ryan, N. S., J. Pascoe, and D. R. Morse. “Enhanced Reality Fieldwork: the Context-aware Archaeological Assistant.” in Computer Applications in Archaeology. Edited by V. Gaffney, M. van Leusen and S. Exxon. 1997, 1998.

Rhodes, B. “Building a Contextually Aware Associative Memory.” Unpublished draft, 1998.

Elo, S. “PLUM: Contextualizing News for Communities through Augmentation”. MS Thesis.

Feiner, S., B. MacIntyre, T. Hollerer, and A. Webster. “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, 74-81.

Rhodes, Bradley J. “The Wearable Remembrance Agent: A System for Augmented Memory.” in Personal Technologies Journal Special Issue on Wearable Computing , Personal Technologies 1, no. 4 (1997): 218–24.

Applications that use context

Hull, R., P. Neaves, and J. Bedford-Roberts. “Towards Situated Computing.” Proceedings of the First Annual International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Cambridge, MA, October 13-14, 1997, 74-81.

Brown, P. J., J. D. Bovey, and X. Chen. “Context-aware applications: from the laboratory to the marketplace.” IEEE Personal Communications, 4(5), October 1997.

Sawhney, Nitin, and Chris Schmandt. “Nomadic Radio: Scaleable and Contextual Notification for Wearable Audio Messaging (PostScript).” To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Pittsburgh, May 15-20, 1999.

Sensing context

Clarkson, Brian, Nitin Sawhney, and Alex Pentland. “Auditory Context Awareness in Wearable Computing (postscript).” Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, San Francisco, November 5-6, 1998. (PDF)

Starner, Thad, Bernt Schiele, and Alex Pentland. “Visual Contextual Awareness in Wearable Computing (HTML).” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 19-20 October 1998, 50-57.

Healey, J., and R. W. Picard. “StartleCam: A Cybernetic Wearable Camera.” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 19-20 October 1998, 42-49.

Jebara, Tony, Bernt Schiele, Nuria Oliver, and Alex Pentland. “DyPERS: Dynamic Personal Enhanced Reality System (HTML).” Vision and Modeling Technical Report #463, May 1998.

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