Beyond the Physical Environment: Integrating Individual Perception for Context-Related Adaptation

Abstract

Current approaches to context-related studies primarily emphasize monitoring temporal changes in the physical environment to achieve context awareness. However, these approaches often overlook the individual’s subjective perception of these contextual changes. Even psychological studies tend to attribute contextual influences solely to external parameters, neglecting the nuanced human perception of such changes. In this paper, we propose a novel concept for context-related adaptation rooted in the individual’s perception of contextual changes. To address this question, we conducted an experiment involving 18 volunteers to assess the contextual influence of controlled stimuli on each participant individually. Through the collection of both objective data and self-reported subjective assessments, we present initial results indicating the potential for integrating individual perception into context-related adaptation. These findings strongly suggest that contextual changes influence each person in correspondence with their own personal traits, underscoring the relevance of the proposed concept and the need for future research in this direction. Moreover, several challenges remain, particularly in developing a reliable model for assessing human subjective perception. These challenges include obtaining sufficient data from multiple modalities and implementing real domain-specific context scenarios.

Keywords

• HMI
• HMC
• collaborative systems
• context-related adaptation
• contextual perception