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TY - JOUR
T1 - Using Context as a Crystal Ball: Rewards and Pitfalls
AU - Cheverst, Keith
AU - Davies, Nigel
AU - Mitchell, Keith
AU - Efstratiou, Christos
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Context-awareness can be used to simplify a user's understanding of, and interaction with, interactive systems. In effect, through adaptation, context-aware systems can migrate complexity away from the user and into the system (or agent). However, the incorporation of context-awareness raises a number of issues. For example, users are required to trust the behaviour of the system's intelligence and this requires the system to have predictable behaviour and the ability to successfully and consistently preempt the user's goal. Unfortunately, the agent may incorrectly preempt the user's goal, owing to either flawed intelligence or to incorrect or out-of-date contextual information. In such circumstances the user is likely to feel frustration because the system will either appear overly prescriptive or, worse still, present incorrect results. This paper considers these issues, a number of which are described in anecdotal form, based on our experiences in developing and evaluating the context-aware GUIDE system.
AB - Context-awareness can be used to simplify a user's understanding of, and interaction with, interactive systems. In effect, through adaptation, context-aware systems can migrate complexity away from the user and into the system (or agent). However, the incorporation of context-awareness raises a number of issues. For example, users are required to trust the behaviour of the system's intelligence and this requires the system to have predictable behaviour and the ability to successfully and consistently preempt the user's goal. Unfortunately, the agent may incorrectly preempt the user's goal, owing to either flawed intelligence or to incorrect or out-of-date contextual information. In such circumstances the user is likely to feel frustration because the system will either appear overly prescriptive or, worse still, present incorrect results. This paper considers these issues, a number of which are described in anecdotal form, based on our experiences in developing and evaluating the context-aware GUIDE system.
KW - cs_eprint_id
KW - 1668 cs_uid
KW - 397
U2 - 10.1007/s007790170020
DO - 10.1007/s007790170020
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 8
EP - 11
JO - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
JF - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
SN - 1617-4909
IS - 1
ER -