Activity-Context Aware Computing for Supporting Knowledge-Works

The problem of designing and building effective assistive systems for human agents performing professional knowledge-intensive activities, or knowledge-works is of great interest and has wide implications. In this paper we propose a new approach for solving the problem. The approach is based on activity-context aware computation paradigm that can lead to flexible yet robust systems for holistic support in performing complex knowledge-works. To this end, we also outline here the notion of activity-context and the idea of activity-models as core artifacts used by such systems embodying the notion.