The scope of discussions on “context” are generally limited to disambiguating between dates, times, places, and similar properties that might make two otherwise identical claims need to be treated separately. For example, a claim about cars going too fast in Illinois needs to be handled separately from the same claim about cars in Wisconsin because, though the claim text might be identical, the meaning of the claim is actually quite different — it refers to a different subject. The tricky thing is that some aspects of the Illinois context might be relevant to the Wisconsin context; you don’t want to have these debates be entirely separate, but they’re also definitely not the same. How do you handle this?
Relation to other key design areas
The handling of context is very similar to the handling of specificity, usefulness, phrasing, or any other kind of claim variant. It seems unique only because you don’t usually think of context as being something that’s represented in the claim title.
Explicit vs implicit context
If you make context explicit (i.e., embed them in the claim title), then you’re just dealing with a variant like any other, e.g., phrasing, specificity, etc.
Time as context
Tenses as context
It may be important to differentiate between claims like people slow down when they need to stop soon (in an existing scenario) and people would slow down if they needed to stop soon (in a proposed scenario). This is may just be a subset of using time as context with a particular focus on future vs. past and present. The reason for this particular distinction is that the future behaves quite differently from the past in conversation — it is not yet known. The exception would be that there are times when the past is not known either and would, therefore, be subject to similar kinds of discourse. Still, it could be disputed whether people do, in fact, currently slow before stopping, but this would be a different kind of dispute, requiring different kinds of evidence, than a dispute about whether people would slow down before stopping in some future scenario.