A process for the design of Context-Sensitive Systems

Author

Vieira, Vaninha ; Tedesco, Patricia ; Salgado, Ana Carolina

Author_Institution

Data Process. Center, Fed. Univ. of Bahia, Salvador

fYear

2009

Firstpage

143

Lastpage

148

Abstract

Context-Sensitive Systems (CSS) demand that designers consider new aspects and challenges in comparison to traditional applications. In a preliminary experiment, we observed that developers have difficulties when including the concept of context in their applications. This paper presents a CSS Design Process, which details the main activities for context specification and the design of CSS and provides a systematic way to execute these tasks. Two studies were conducted to evaluate the process usage: a detailed execution of each defined activity on the design of a context-sensitive expert recommender system; and an evaluation of the process usage by distinct designers on their CSS projects. These studies showed a good acceptance of our proposal and indicated the feasibility of using the process on real projects.

Keywords

expert systems; information filters; ubiquitous computing; context-sensitive expert recommender system; context-sensitive system design process; process usage evaluation; Application software; Cascading style sheets; Collaborative work; Context modeling; Context-aware services; Data processing; Informatics; Process design; Proposals; Recommender systems; Context; Context-Awareness; Context-Sensitive System; Design Process;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2009. CSCWD 2009. 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Santiago

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3534-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3535-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2009.4968049

Filename

4968049