Context Awareness in Future Life Scenarios: Impact on Service Provisioning Platforms

Abstract

Looking at future life scenarios we discover that personal communication devices are expected to play a central role in the organization of the user’s life, enabling him to access any information he needs at any time, and taking what action which is useful in his specific situation. This will be done by taking individual preferences and context information into account. Still, these scenarios most often do not outline the impact on the technology platform behind. In this paper we picked up the example of service portals as a simple, well introduced aspect of service provisioning and describe how the enrichment through context awareness will bring us one step closer to those future life scenarios.