Is Group-Awareness Context-Awareness?: Converging Context-Awareness and Group Awareness Support

This article discusses the interest of emerging a unified view for group awareness and context informationongroupwareandcontext-awaresystems.Groupawarenesscorrespondstoanimportant conceptonGroupwareapplications,allowingindividualuserstobekeptawareofgroup’sactivities and status. Context is defined by ubiquitous computing as any relevant information that can be usedtocharacterizethesituationofanentity.Weassumethatgroupawarenessinformationshould beconsideredascontextinformationandhandledassuch.Groupawarenessinformationisoften employedfordecisionmaking,contributingtousers’activitiesanddecisions,butitgivesalsoan importantclueaboutuser’scontext,characterizingindividual’sactionsregardingthegroup.Assuch, groupawarenessmaybeusedforadaptationpurposes,adaptingthesystembehavior,thesupplied contentoritsservices.Besides,architecturalconcernsadoptedoncontext-awaresystemshouldalso beconsideredwhendevelopingnewgroupwareapplicationsthataremoreandmoredesignedas context-awaresystems. KeywoRdS Context Distribution, Context Management, Context-Aware Applications, Context-Awareness, Group Awareness, Groupware Applications, Pervasive Information Systems

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