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Activity Zones for Context-Aware Computing

Location is a primary cue in many context-aware computing systems, and is often represented as a global coordinate, room number, or Euclidean distance various landmarks. A user?s concept of location, however, is often defined in terms of regions in which common activities occur. We show how to partition a space into such regions based on patterns of observed user location and motion. These regions, which we call activity zones, represent regions of similar user activity, and can be used to trigger application actions, retrieve information based on previous context, and present information to users. We suggest that context-aware applications can benefit from a location representation learned from observing users. We describe an implementation of our system and present two example applications whose behavior is controlled by users? entry, exit, and presence in the zones.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/6720
Date10 June 2003
CreatorsKoile, Kimberle, Tollmar, Konrad, Demirdjian, David, Shrobe, Howard, Darrell, Trevor
Source SetsM.I.T. Theses and Dissertation
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Format12 p., 17075202 bytes, 8771896 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf
RelationAIM-2003-015

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