• 1. Foundations of LBS
  • 1.1. What are LBS?
  • 1.2. How is it useful?
  • 1.3. What’s special about it?
    • 1.3.1. Context and Privacy
    • 1.3.2. Adaption
    • 1.3.3. Examples
    • 1.3.4. Self Assessment
    • 1.3.5. Summary
  • 1.4. How does it work?
  • 1.5. Summary
  • 1.6. Recommended Reading
  • 1.7. Glossary
  • 1.8. Bibliography
  • 1.9. Metadata

1.3.5. Summary

This unit tried to show you that context awareness makes LBS applications very special compared to other information technologies. With the animation you could interactively explore which different types of context exists if moving the mouse over the watch (time), the people in the background (social context), the arrow on the ground indicating the walking direction (orientation) or the footprints as a metaphor for the user action history.

The second section of the unit shows you how context can be used by adaptation. Apart from the examples you could play with a interactive tools and explore adaption by moving the pointer of the clock or the distance slider. You should finally know that adaption can take place on four levels: information, technology, user interface and the kind of presentation.

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