Relevant research paper: >Exploiting Space and Location as a Design Framework for Interactive Mobile Systems by ALAN DIX and TOM RODDEN, NIGEL DAVIES, JONATHAN TREVOR, ADRIAN FRIDAY, and KEVIN PALFREYMAN.

This article considers the importance of context in mobile systems. It considers a range of context-related issues and focus on location as a key issue for mobile systems. A design framework is described consisting of taxonomies of location, mobility, population, and device awareness. The design framework informs the construction of a semantic model of space for mobile systems. The semantic model is reflected in a computational model built on a distributed platform that allows contextual information to be shared across a number of mobile devices. The framework supports the design of interactive mobile systems while the platform supports their rapid development.