Present approaches utilizing awareness of context specialize on their unique domain of employment. Although similarities between those approaches exist, the concepts and systems utilized in this context are vastly heterogeneous. Our goal is the abstraction of the current situation in context-aware computing and the development of generalized concepts for approaching the development of context-aware systems. We put our focus on ubiquitous computing and mobile services, since those are especially suitable for employing awareness of contextual information. This paper presents the first step in this endeavor, consisting of an in-depth survey of context-aware computing and the presentation of our future plans to proceed in this project.     «

Present approaches utilizing awareness of context specialize on their unique domain of employment. Although similarities between those approaches exist, the concepts and systems utilized in this context are vastly heterogeneous. Our goal is the abstraction of the current situation in context-aware computing and the development of generalized concepts for approaching the development of context-aware systems. We put our focus on ubiquitous computing and mobile services, since those are especially...     »