Experiences with Developing Context-Aware Applications with Augmented Artefacts

—Context-Awareness is a key concept of future ubiquitous computing. Although various academic and industry researches are going on around the world to realize context-awareness, we are yet to achieve any substantial success. In this paper we have reported our experiences of dealing with context awareness. We have presented our approach for building context-aware applications by demonstrating a real life application development process. Furthermore we have presented two context-aware application frameworks that we have deployed in the roadmap of our research towards context-awareness. We have discussed our findings and learned lessons on various issues of context-awareness.

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