Smart artifacts promise to enhance the relationships among participants in distributed working groups, maintaining personal mobility while offering opportunities for the collaboration, informal communication, and social awareness that contribute to the synergy and cohesiveness inherent in collocated teams
Amigo Context Management Service (CMS) is an open infrastructure for managing context information. The role of the CMS is to acquire information coming from various sources, such as physical sensors, user activities, applications in process or internet applications and to subsequently combine or abstract these pieces of information into "context information" to be provided to context aware services. This article introduces the basic principles behind underlying the CMS design and implementation and illustrates its application to implementing an ambient intelligence enabled home environment, supporting users in handling daily routine tasks such as the morning waking up. The most salient features of the CMS include:-Its compliance to the web service architecture both for interfacing to context consuming applications and for integrating its sub components-The modeling of context information using a high level language with much expressiveness-State of the art context sources such as a context history manager and an audio based positioning system.
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