IDF 2010: Creating apps for context-aware devices

In a previous post from IDF, I wrote about the extraordinary possibilities discussed and demoed in Justin Rattner’s keynote on contextual awareness in applications and devices. While contextually aware devices open up exciting new avenues for software developers, they also present concerns and some daunting challenges. At its heart, context awareness is all about sensing. The device needs ways of understanding [...]

IDF 2010: Context-aware computing – the possibilities

Apps that proactively guide your wanderings around a foreign city, technology that predicts an older person’s fall before it happens, a TV that lets you know which of your favourite programs are showing as soon as you pick up the remote: the future? In fact, these are some of the currently existing prototype technologies that [...]

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