TY - GEN
T1 - The connector - Facilitating context-aware communication
AU - Danninger, M.
AU - Flaherty, G.
AU - Bernardin, K.
AU - Ekenel, H. K.
AU - Köhler, T.
AU - Malkin, R.
AU - Stiefelhagen, R.
AU - Waibel, A.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - We present the Connector, a context-aware service that intelligently connects people. It maintains an awareness of its users' activities, preoccupations and social relationships to mediate a proper connection at the right time between them. In addition to providing users with important contextual cues about the availability of potential callees, the Connector adapts the behavior of the contactee's device automatically in order to avoid inappropriate interruptions. To acquire relevant context information, perceptual components analyze sensor input obtained from a smart mobile phone and - if available -from a variety of audio-visual sensors built into a smart meeting room environment. The Connector also uses any available multimodal interface (e.g. a speech interface to the smart phone, steerable camera-projector, targeted loudspeakers) in the smart meeting room, to deliver information to users in the most unobtrusive way possible.
AB - We present the Connector, a context-aware service that intelligently connects people. It maintains an awareness of its users' activities, preoccupations and social relationships to mediate a proper connection at the right time between them. In addition to providing users with important contextual cues about the availability of potential callees, the Connector adapts the behavior of the contactee's device automatically in order to avoid inappropriate interruptions. To acquire relevant context information, perceptual components analyze sensor input obtained from a smart mobile phone and - if available -from a variety of audio-visual sensors built into a smart meeting room environment. The Connector also uses any available multimodal interface (e.g. a speech interface to the smart phone, steerable camera-projector, targeted loudspeakers) in the smart meeting room, to deliver information to users in the most unobtrusive way possible.
KW - Context-aware communication
KW - Multimodal interfaces
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/32344439759
U2 - 10.1145/1088463.1088478
DO - 10.1145/1088463.1088478
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:32344439759
SN - 1595930280
SN - 9781595930286
T3 - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI'05
SP - 69
EP - 75
BT - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI'05
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 7th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI 2005
Y2 - 4 October 2005 through 6 October 2005
ER -