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Metadata meets “Context”
•User context (née “Preferences”)
•Location
•At work / at home / on holiday
•Age
•Topics of interest (“likes Madonna”)
•Connections to others
•Schedule
•Situational Context
•In a meeting
•At a conference
•Travelling to Dublin
•At a concert
•Event-based context
•Time of day
•Current events (the Olympics)
•News/Information
•Messages
•Application-specific information (e.g. flight timetables)
•Putting it all together:
•When you pick up your mobile phone on your way to the airport for your trip to Dublin to attend a conference on metadata, you see that your flight has been cancelled and are easily able to rebook on an alternate flight.
•When you arrive in Dublin, you again glance at your phone and see that there’s a surprise Madonna concert happening the day after your conference. You’re prompted for whether you want to buy tickets now and extend your stay an extra day.
•While at the conference, you receive only high priority messages.
•At dinner, your phone tells you that there are others attending the same conference who will also be going to the concert – you can choose whether or not to advertise this fact yourself to your colleagues. You bond with your fellow Madonna fans.
•The next day, at the concert, you create mobile blog entries using your camera phone. News wires pick up your pictures and you get some nice royalties.
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•…or other, more innovative, ideas…