Experiences with situation aware service provision

A growing number of frameworks and middleware for context aware application exists as prototypes. Only little information with practical deployment is available. The COMPASS system has been developed as a platform for multilingual, personalized and situation aware provision of mobile services to help visitors of the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing. In a field test a group of external users tested the COMPASS system in its target environment. This paper describes some results of the field test regarding situation aware service provision.