Author:
Peter Bøgh Andersen
Affiliation:
University of Aarhus, Denmark
Keyword(s):
Activities, business processes, mobile computing, context-aware computing, semantic roles, semiotics.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agent-Oriented Programming
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Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Information Systems Analysis and Specification
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Intelligent Social Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence Applications
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Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
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Knowledge-Based Systems
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Modeling Formalisms, Languages and Notations
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Natural Language Interfaces to Intelligent Systems
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Semiotics
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Software Agents and Internet Computing
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Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Mobile and context-aware technology enables new activity-centred ways of using digital technology that require systematic methods for representing actions and activities computationally. The paper uses findings from ethnography, linguistics and philosophy to paint a generic portrait of activities, and suggests ways of representing it in an object-oriented framework. The paper makes a sharp distinction between the representation and the represented. The representations are not activities, they only represent them.