PhoneMan: the benefits of personal call histories

  • Authors:
  • David Millen;Don Henderson

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Labs, Red Bank, NJ;AT&T Labs, Red Bank, NJ

  • Venue:
  • CHI '00 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In the PhoneMan research project we are exploring IP-based telephony control, new telephony interfaces, and non-traditional ways of merging telephony, messaging and alerting. The PhoneMan application allows complete control and monitoring of an ISDN desktop phone from a local PC and remotely from the web. Current features include enhanced screen pops, which can be configured to query local or remote directories, including corporate directories and public white page services, and email call notification, which allows remote call alerting, call logging and active management of personal call histories. User reactions to the initial release of this application, based on in-person interviews and a web-based survey, reveal the novel use of email call logs as active call reminders and email messages as phone event triggers.