Presence awareness: multiple sources, multiple roles

  • Authors:
  • Mark Handel

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Venue:
  • CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Intelligent, networked devices are increasingly common, and most of these devices are capable of reporting presence information about users or sets of users. One serious limitation is that most existing presence awareness systems are unable handle multiple presence sources at once, nor are they able to handle the situation where a user is also enacting multiple roles. This work looks at some of the possible problems with multiple sources, such as when a single device could report about multiple people, or devices have conflicting data.