Context-Aware Computing: The CyberDesk Project

Intelligent Environments

Volume

Papers from the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

The CyberDesk project is aimed at providing a software architecture that dynamically integrates software modules. This integration is driven by a user’s context, where context includes the user’s physical, social, emotional, and mental (focus of attention) environments. While a user’s context changes in all settings, it tends to change most frequently in a mobile setting. We have used the CyberDesk system in a desktop setting and are currently using it to build an intelligent home environment.