a context-aware communication system Natalia Marmasse advisor: Chris Schmandt Speech Interface Group MIT Media Lab

Mobile Communication email ubiquitous wireless technology pervasive increasing ways of being contacted increasing pace of communication desire to communicate at any time and place information overload and continuous interruptions

Challenges Everywhere Messaging - the ability to send and receive messages all the time minimize interruption adapt to user location awareness user interface

How many times have you gone to the grocery store but left : a context-aware communication system How many times have you gone to the grocery store but left the shopping list on the refrigerator door? Wouldn’t it be more efficient to have a reminder to buy groceries and the shopping list delivered to you when you were in the vicinity of the store?

Context - awareness The ability of the computer to sense and act upon information about its environment. location time temperature user identity user activity

Location-learning agent user tracked via GPS salient locations automatically determined latitude/longitude translated to virtual location to-do list associated (site specific or shared) no bootstrapping necessary

Deliverables reminders to-do lists messages Web content delivered in a timely manner when in the relevant context triggered by user’s geographic location

Speech Interface mobile hands/eyes busy core functions have speech interface - auditory cues - speech recognition - text-to-speech synthesis - audio playback

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Hardware

Privacy data as safe as device community awareness

Architecture

Architecture