1. Situational Appropriateness An HCI Project Proposal by Sabine Junginger PHD Student Design Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2001

2. What are you doing just now? Families and friends who live apart face difficulties to time their conversations: We do not know Is it too early? Is it too late? Is there a visitor? Is s/he busy? …

3. What are the questions for us? 1. What are situational appropriate opportunities in the home context? 2. Can situational appropriateness increase sense of social presence?

4. How can we go about this? 1. Identify objects in homes and their typical sit. uses (Coffeemaker, Oven, etc.) 2. Build possible scenarios 3. Test one scenario

5. The team it takes 1. A multi-disciplinary, open- minded team with a lot of personal engagement, i.e. ability for self-observation,… 2. Technical experience would be great as this is my personal weakness

6. Questions?