The Context Quintet: Narrative Elements Applied to Context Awareness 1

Abstract

For a computational device to be context aware, it needs to be sensitive to physical, social, and task situations. While answering the five basic narrative questions of Who, What, When, Where and Why can provide a tremendous amount of understanding and context to a story, making a computational or communications device sensitive to these same questions provide a simple yet powerful structural guidelines for context awareness in device interface design.