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As part of a project that I’m working on, a few months ago I did a report on context-awareness in smart homes, especially to support independent living (e.g. for the elderly). I’ve been meaning to post the paper here and just got around to doing it. So here it is in PDF format (about 360 KB) if you’re interested. Here’s the abstract:

The growth of new home technologies, its ubiquity, and the ageing population of the world are some of the main factors that have generated ideas and interests in combining them together to create a new breed of applications that can be used to allow ageing in place, by supporting elderly individuals to live independently at the comfort of their own home while putting the minds of extended family members and care givers at ease. This literature review report will discuss various research and current issues in ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing, smart homes, independent living, how they relate to each other, and how context-awareness and smart homes can provide support for independent living.