Harter, Andy; Hopper, Andy; Steggles, Pete; Ward, Andy; Webster, Paul The anatomy of a context-aware application. (English) Zbl 1012.68979 Wireless Networks 8, No. 2-3, 187-197 (2002). Summary: We describe a sensor-driven, or sentient, platform for context-aware computing that enables applications to follow mobile users as they move around a building. The platform is particularly suitable for richly equipped, networked environments. The only item a user is required to carry is a small sensor tag, which identifies them to the system and locates them accurately in three dimensions. The platform builds a dynamic model of the environment using these location sensors and resource information gathered by telemetry software, and presents it in a form suitable for application programmers. Use of the platform is illustrated through a practical example, which allows a user’s current working desktop to follow them as they move around the environment. Cited in 2 Documents MSC: 68U99 Computing methodologies and applications 68M10 Network design and communication in computer systems Keywords:mobile computing; sentient computing; context-aware computing; location sensors; resource monitoring; middleware; spatial indexing; CORBA; visualisation; HCI PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{A. Harter} et al., Wirel. Netw. 8, No. 2--3, 187--197 (2002; Zbl 1012.68979) Full Text: DOI