Context Awareness and Context Recognition in Modern Decision-Making - 2
Section Two: Context In this section we look at the concept of context as it applies to both human and computer cognition. After laying out some perspectives of context and its role in decision-making, we identify and describe three major interpretations of context: as a schema, as a frame, and as a model. Perspectives on Context Context is “a complex description of shared knowledge about physical, social, historical, or other circumstances within which an action or an event occurs… (that) does not intervene explicitly in a problem solving but constrains it” (Brézillon, 2004). Dey and Aboud (1999) define context as “any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place, or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and applications themselves” (See also Aboud, Dey, et al., 2001; See Zainol and Nakata (2010, pp. 126-127) for additional definitions along the same lin...
