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De Heer et. at. write on "Context-aware Mobile Business Applications"

In their view, the situational context comprises:

  • Identity [presumably of the user]
  • spatial information (e.g. location, orientation, speed and acceleration)
  • temporal information (e.g. time of the day, date, and season of the year)
  • environmental information (e.g. temperature, air quality, and light or noise level)
  • social situation (e.g. who are you with, and people that are nearby)
  • resources that are nearby (e.g. accessible devices, and hosts)
  • availability of resources (e.g. battery, display, network, and bandwidth)
  • physiological measurements (e.g. blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, muscle activity, and tone of voice)
  • activity (e.g. talking, walking, and running)
  • schedules and agenda settings

To which I would add "historical/background" information about the user and others:

  • user, and others who the user has interacted with (e.g. past activities, preferences, experiences, purchases and so forth)
  • social interactions (e.g. past communications, agreements, activities and so forth)

Plus related information such as:

  • information about the user's plans and the user's social group's plans (e.g. a shopping list, project goals).

  • information about the things, people, circumstances, locations etc. that impacts the user's perception of the situation (e.g. knowing that the collapsing friend has been diagnosed with epilepsy)