期刊名称：Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline
印刷版ISSN：1547-9684
电子版ISSN：1521-4672
出版年度：2002
卷号：5
页码：43-43
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：The idea of context-aware artifacts is that computational artifacts are able to recognize the context in which they are being used so that these
artifacts are able to adapt their functionality to the respective context. Most work in developing context-aware artifacts appears to be
technology-driven by which we mean that often the relation of the artifacts to the underlying concepts of context remain unclear. In this
paper, we look at the concept of context in context-aware artifacts from a cognition-oriented perspective and we argue for an explicit
distinction between the concept of context that is operationalized and the original usage situation which we understand as a social setting
that has been negotiated among peers in the first place. Acknowledging the difference suggests that developers of context-aware artifacts
should pay considerable attention to the fact that the context determined by artifacts may differ from what the persons involved in the
situation have negotiated. Furthermore, it suggests to critically review operationalizations of context in context-aware artifacts and their
impact on how context is conceptualized.
