Context-aware communication

Moquan Chen & Stian Kilaas

Introduction

Context-aware communication: the way a user is contacted depends on his/her context

This article examines projects and gives them points on a context-aware vs. autonomous actions graph

Early projects

Good at autonomous actions, but users had to

manually input their location

Good at deducing

location through IR sensors, but

requires manual actions

Good at autonomous

actions, and good at deducing context. But

actions had to be pre-scripted.

Conclusions

A context-aware communication device should: Improve relevance Minimize disruption Reduce overload Select channels

Conclusions

Challenges: Sensor precision Autonomous action

iAideMoquan Chen & Stian Kilaas

Introduction

• It’s mobile• It gives you a lot of info• But you have to filter by

context yourselfYou shouldn’t have to do that!

Existing solutions

Is location-aware enough?

Understanding Users

What info do I want?

How would I get that

info?

Where am I?

What’s going on?

What time is it?

Any friends here?

GPS

Calendar

ClockContact list

& social networks

I am context aware!

User group: us

Pre-prototype

Today

Without iAide

Pre-prototype

Future

With iAide

Prototype

Prototype

Evaluation

To come...

Next iteration

Expand user-group to other iPhone users

Make higher fidelity prototype

Goals

How do users find contextually relevant info today?

How can this be automated in the future?

(make iPhone app)