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Towards Activity Context using Software Sensors
conference contribution
posted on 2011-02-16, 11:42 authored by Kamran Taj Pathan, Stephan Reiff-MarganiecService-Oriented Computing delivers the promise of configuring and reconfiguring software systems
to address user’s needs in a dynamic way. Context-aware computing promises to capture the user’s
needs and hence the requirements they have on systems. The marriage of both can deliver ad-hoc
software solutions relevant to the user in the most current fashion. However, here it is a key to gather
information on the users’ activity (that is what they are doing). Traditionally any context sensing
was conducted with hardware sensors. However, software can also play the same role and in some
situations will be more useful to sense the activity of the user. Furthermore they can make use of the
fact that Service-oriented systems exchange information through standard protocols. In this paper
we discuss our proposed approach to sense the activity of the user making use of software.