MyConnector: analysis of context cues to predict human availability for communication

  • Authors:
  • Maria Danninger;Tobias Kluge;Rainer Stiefelhagen

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe;Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe;Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Multimodal interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this thriving world of mobile communications, the difficulty of communication is no longer contacting someone, but rather contacting people in a socially appropriate manner. Ideally, senders should have some understanding of a receiver's availability in order to make contact at the right time, in the right contexts, and with the optimal communication medium.We describe the design and implementation of MyConnector, an adaptive and context-aware service designed to facilitate efficient and appropriate communication, based on each party's availability. One of the chief design questions of such a service is to produce technologies with sufficient contextual awareness to decide upon a person's availability for communication. We present results from a pilot study comparing a number of context cues and their predictive power for gauging one's availability.