Gartner believes that research by A K Dey and G D Abowd (as well as S Buchholz and others) offers the most succinct definition: context is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of entities (people, places or objects) that are considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and the application itself. Context typically includes the location, identity and state of people, groups and computational and physical objects. The context of a person may involve personal information, preferences, habits, gender, age and other facts. Context can be derived from a wide variety of systems and networks — especially from, but not limited to, the Web. Context-aware computing studies how these entities use information that characterizes the situation of a person, place or object to adapt their behavior or the content they provide.
2010-09-28
Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management
via gartner.com
