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The Second International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (huc2k)
Bristol, 25-27 September, 2000
International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC 99)  
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Everywhere Messaging

Chris Schmandt
ABSTRACT Two way messaging is a wonderful application for wearable and ubiquitous computing because it allows rapid deployment of an essential, asynchronous service into users' everyday life. As soon as we can receive messages anywhere, however, we realize that uncontrolled message delivery can quickly become distracting and annoying.

This talk explores two issues with nomadic message services: filtering and alerting. The goal is to select only the right messages, and then tell the users about them in an appropriate manner which blends in with their tasks and acoustic environments. Filtering is based on personal information about the recipient (calendar, address book, correspondence and phone call log) as well as the recipient's location. Our work in alerting focuses on wearable auditory user interfaces, with the behavior of the wearable system adapting to its user's behavior and conversational state.

These issues will be demonstrated in discussion of a number of Media Lab student research projects.

C. Schmandt Chris Schmandt received the BS and MS degrees from MIT, where he has been building speech systems since 1979. He is the director of the Speech Research Group at the Media Laboratory, a position he has held since the creation of the Lab. Before that he worked on speech applications research at the Architecture Machine Group, including the "Put That There" and "Phone Slave" projects, as well as projects in digital video typography and gestural input for stereoscopic video displays.

His current research focuses on user interfaces and applications of speech processing technology, voice as a data type on workstations and hand-held computers, and computer-mediated telephony. Key to this work is gaining a better understanding of how people use speech for communication in a conversational context, and how to apply this knowledge to more effective voice interaction with computers.

Hans-Werner Gellersen
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