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Human Performance
Abstract—The implementation of context is crucial in performance affecting KPI of an organization. While last but
monitoring human performance. Context can be describes as the not least, in Section V concludes the paper.
situation or environment of human undertaking certain activities.
Previous studies shows there are several factors affecting human
performance. The paper discusses several factors affecting human
II. CONTEXT AWARE RESEARCH
performance from achieving Key Performance Index (KPI) targets
identified from previous studies. We believe these factors could be A) Context
classified into multiple contexts such as into human personal,
behavior and environmental context in order for us to predict
human performance. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to Context can be defined as the characters or elements of
review and discuss the context-aware research in order for us to an environment surrounding things like objects, applications
develop a context-aware based predictive framework for monitoring or gadgets [2,42] as well as people or the end users of
human performance. applications [31,35]. In addition, context may contains
Keywords—key performance indicatior;context; context- parameters such as places [35], date, time, location,
aware;context-aware prediction;human behaviour; orientation, the user’s emotional state [8] and personality [31].
[16] also define context as aspects of the on-going situation
I. INTRODUCTION which covers the whole environment
. Key performance indicators (KPI) is one of the human The definitions stated by Schilit et al. [34], Dey et al. [7]
performance tools that assist a particular organization or
and Pascoe [26] are almost similar in the operational definition
someone in monitoring their performance against the target set
we seek off. Schilit et al. state that the important aspects of
by the management [37]. In Malaysia, universities which has
been given a status as Research University by the Ministry of context are: who is the person, where is the person, what is
Education need to maintain their status for several beneficial he/her doing, why he/she doing and what resources are nearby.
reasons. To maintain the status, these universities need to meet Schilit also stated that context to be variable despite the
certain KPI requirements. The number of publication environment. They also stated and consider these followings
achievement is an important indicators which measure the as environment:
universities achieve its KPI. For example, publication is done
by the academician within respective universities. However, III. CONTEXT AWARE RESEARCH
some of the constraints to achieve the KPI targets set the
university’s management are weak publishing cultures, weak A) Context
reviewing practices, inadequate Ph.D. and others. This factor
gradually occurs because the targeted objectives need high First and foremost, we have to develop our own
productivity from all the employees. In addition, there is no interpretation and idea of context and context aware which can
systemic study or method in measuring human performance in be fit in the context aware predictive field. In order to have our
terms of contextual information especially in context-aware own definition, we will look at how researchers defined
prediction field. context in their own work. According to Schilit and Theimer
[35], they define context as places, recognizes of nearby
This review paper is structured as follows: Section II objects and people, and objects alteration. In an identical
discussed in details regarding context aware research. We will explanation, Dey et al. [8] discuss context as focus of
review numerous definitions of contexts and context-aware by attention, date and time, the user’s emotional state, location
various researchers and come out with own definition. This is
and orientation, objects, and people in the user’s environment.
followed by key performance indicators (KPI) in Section III.
In Section IV is all about human performance and how human In a different point of view, Brown et al. [1] refer context as
location, locating user and identifies of the character around
the end user, the duration of the day, climate, and season. On Moreover, Dey et al. stated that context can be classified
top of that, Ryan et al. [31] define context as the character’s as emotional, user’s physical, informational state, or social.
area, surroundings, time and personality. Last but not least, Pascoe describe context to be the conceptual
and physical condition of interest to distinct entity. The three
There are few explanations and definition that brings the previous point of view and definitions are quite detailed and
same definition for context; for instance; context referring as specific. The flaw of these stated definitions is we can’t list
the surroundings or atmosphere, some believe context is out which aspects of context fit in the current issues of this
referring to be the character’s environment, while the rest research as all these requirements will dynamically change
from time to time, according to the situation.
acknowledge it to be the application’s environment. On the
other hand, Franklin and Flaschbart [12] state context as the
Based on the previous definition of context, we found
position of the character. In addition, Ward et al. [42] see
defining context through prototype is hard to apply. It is also
context as the case of the application’s surroundings. Besides,
hard to decide whether unlisted of information in the
according to Hull et al. [16] he views context as object covers
definition is context or not, and it is still unclear on how we
the whole environment by defining context to be aspects of the
can apply the definition and solution to figure out the
on-going situation. Rodden et al. [30] define context to be the
problems. In a nutshell, based on our research and
default of particular application while Brown [2] describe
requirements, we define context as information or data which
context to be the elements of the character’s surroundings that
can be applied to distinguish the environment and status of an
character’s computer acknowledge.
object. We can describe an object as a character, location,
position, job, age or factors that considered compatible to the
After some analysis and discussion we found out the
interaction between an application and an user, including the
definitions gave out by Dey et al. [7], Schilit et al. [34], and
user and application themselves.
Pascoe [26] are almost similar in the functional definition we
seek off. Schilit et al. state that what matters the most in B) Context-Aware
context are: who is the person, where is the person, what is
he/her doing, why he/she doing and what resources are nearby. First and foremost, past researchers have multiple
Schilit also stated that context to be variable despite the definitions of context-aware from different perspectives.
environment. They also stated and consider these followings According to Dey [7], Dey limits context-awareness to the
as environment: human-computer interface, as opposed to the underlying
application. While according to Pascoe et al. [26,27] and Hull
TABLE I. DEFINITON OF “CONTEXT” IN CONTEXT-AWARE et al. [16], both of them defined context-aware as the
capability of computing tools to sense and detect, processing
and reflect to aspects of a character’s current surroundings and
Categories Context the computing tools themselves.
Physical context - Noise, lighting, traffic
condition, temperature Context-aware has other similar with other terms such as
User context - Location, social, situation, user environment-directed [10], situated [16], context-sensitive
profile [29] and responsive [9]. The context-aware definitions are
Computing context - Network connectivity divided into two groups; applying context and adapting to
context. On the other hand, Salber et al [32] characterize
- Communication cost, context-aware as the capability to supply utmost adaptability
communication bandwidth
of a context-aware computational service based on real-time
- Nearby resource sensing of current context.
The definitions of context by Schilit et al. can understand
more by referring to figure 1. Context-aware back then were discussed by Schilit [34],
Ward [42], Korteum [19] contain similar definition which they
discussed context-aware applications to be a variable functions
that constantly changed or adapting their action based on the
WHO IS THE PERSON? context of the application and the character. In addition,
WHERE IS THE PERSON?
WHAT IS HE/HER DOING? Brown [2], see context-aware as applications that naturally
WHY HE/SHE DOING SO? give data and take actions accordingly based to character’s
current context as detected by sensors. In more specific
discussion, Ryan [31] state context-aware as an operations that
INPUT OUTPUT
control data from environment sensors and grant permission to
CONTEXT-
characters to select from a range of logical and physical
AWARENESS contexts according to their personal preferences. Last but not
APPLICATIONS least, Fickas et al [10] see context-aware as applications that
control difference in the environment and fit their operation
based on the user guidelines.
Figure 1: Definition of context by Schilit et al.
Based on our research and requirements, we personally
defined context-aware as a scheme which practice context to Leach et al., Unsupervised Inherent problems of detecting
2014 context-aware human behavioural anomalies in
serve applicable data and information or services to the user, process crowd surveillance environment.
where the priority of the data is set itself by the user’s based
on user’s personal preferences. D) Context-Aware Prediction
Firstly, predictive analytic composes from multiple
C) Context-Aware Existing Works statistical techniques and actions such as data mining, machine
learning, and modelling that examine current and past facts to
Context-aware techniques and works has been make predictions about future or unknown period of time or
implemented in many fields and disciplines such as; web events. In addition, predictive analytic also aimed at
services (Van Woensel et al., 2011), tourism (Van Setten et understanding behavioural patterns of users.
al., 2004), social media (Liu and Aberer, 2013),
communication (Sudha et al., 2007), advertisement (Dao et al., In relation with this research, the main source of data for
2012) and etc. Previous researchers have also identified these predictive analytics is user’s profiles and user’s
‘context aware as a key enabling technology for pervasive performance. Understanding user’s performance patterns is an
computing’ (Ramesh et al., 2014). Context-aware has important component of predictive analytics. Predictive
significant relationship with human and environment; hence analytics application is naturally sensitive to context. The
its classification in user context, computing context, physical user’s performance may change depending on the context and
context (Dey et al., 2001; Ramesh et al., 2014). The following potentially within the context. Thus by applying the prediction
table II shows some of the context aware existing works found models with context management mechanisms are expected to
throughout this research study. make the model more specialized and predictive analytics
more accurate and reliable.