Nomadic radio: scaleable and contextual notification for wearable audio messaging

  • Authors:
  • Nitin Sawhney;Chris Schmandt

  • Affiliations:
  • Speech Interface Group, MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA;Speech Interface Group, MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Mobile workers need seamless access to communication andinformation services on portable devices. However current solutionsoverwhelm users with intrusive and ambiguous notifications. In thispaper, we describe scaleable auditory techniques and a contextualnotification model for providing timely information, whileminimizing interruptions. Users actions influence local adaptationin the model. These techniques are demonstrated in Nomadic Radio,an audio-only wearable computing platform.