Situation Metaphor (Contd)

Situation Space

  • The Situation Space is the user interaction space in which s/he may have used the mobile computer/device as an embedded tool to achieve his/her business objectives.
  • The main Objective of Situated Space is to describe all the identified past user-situations in a meaningful way that could be used to provide appropriate system behaviour and functionalities.
  • The situation space is reagrded as"n-dimensional"space
  • The location has two dimensions - latitude and longitude
  • Time is one-dimensional but has logical attributes - day, month,year etc.
  • User activities and contextual factors vary from situation to situation