Large language models (LLMs) have become phenomenally surging, since
2018--two decades after introducing context-awareness into computing systems.
Through taking into account the situations of ubiquitous devices, users and the
societies, context-aware computing has enabled a wide spectrum of innovative
applications, such as assisted living, location-based social network services
and so on. To recognize contexts and make decisions for actions accordingly,
various artificial intelligence technologies, such as Ontology and OWL, have
been adopted as representations for context modeling and reasoning. Recently,
with the rise of LLMs and their improved natural language understanding and
reasoning capabilities, it has become feasible to model contexts using natural
language and perform context reasoning by interacting with LLMs such as ChatGPT
and GPT-4. In this tutorial, we demonstrate the use of texts, prompts, and
autonomous agents (AutoAgents) that enable LLMs to perform context modeling and
reasoning without requiring fine-tuning of the model. We organize and introduce
works in the related field, and name this computing paradigm as the LLM-driven
Context-aware Computing (LCaC). In the LCaC paradigm, users' requests, sensors
reading data, and the command to actuators are supposed to be represented as
texts. Given the text of users' request and sensor data, the AutoAgent models
the context by prompting and sends to the LLM for context reasoning. LLM
generates a plan of actions and responds to the AutoAgent, which later follows
the action plan to foster context-awareness. To prove the concepts, we use two
showcases--(1) operating a mobile z-arm in an apartment for assisted living,
and (2) planning a trip and scheduling the itinerary in a context-aware and
personalized manner.Comment: Under revie