Context–aware retrieval going social

In this paper we present the Social Context-Aware Browser, a general purpose solution to Web content perusal by means of mobile devices. This is not just a new kind of application, but it is a novel approach for the information access based on the users’ context. With the aim of overtaking the limits in current approaches to context–awareness, our solution exploits the collaborative efforts of the whole community of users to control and manage contextual knowledge, related both to situations and resources. This paper presents a general survey of our solution, describing the idea and some scenarios, presenting the model to information access, open problems and future challenges.