The Context Toolkit
-- The Context Toolkit aims at facilitating the development and deployment of
context-aware applications. By
context, we mean environmental
information that is part of an application's operating environment and that
can be sensed by the application.
The Context Toolkit consists of context widgets and a distributed
infrastructure that hosts the widgets. Context widgets are software
components that provide applications with access to context information
while hiding the details of context sensing.
In the same way GUI widgets insulate applications from some presentation
concerns, context widgets insulate applications from context
acquisition concerns.
The Aware Home Research Initiative
-- The Aware Home Research Initiative (AHRI) is a focused research program,
whose goal is to develop the requisite technologies to create a home
environment that can both perceive and assist its occupants. The scope of
the projects carried out within this program range from fundamental
technical development to cognitive and ethnological studies that assess
the most appropriate and compelling technological strategies.