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Smart Phones Will Know When You Can't Answer
by Reuters
12/03/2003
LONDON (Reuters) - Smart telephones may one day be able to sense when you are too busy to be interrupted and ask the caller to leave a message.
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania are working on the technology that could be used in instant messaging systems and office and mobile phones.
Tiny microphones, cameras and sensors reveal body language and computer software analyzes the signals to determine whether someone is too occupied to take a call.
Pounding a computer keyboard, closed office doors, speaking to another person and the time of day are possible signals of being busy.
Four people at work rated how busy they were as sensors monitored the signals. The ratings were correlated with the behaviors and the computer program picked out the most important signs.
"The computer was actually better than people at predicting when someone was too busy to be interrupted," according to New Scientist magazine.
James Fogarty and Scott Hudson, the scientists who are developing the system, think it could be available in a few years.
The full article appeared at Reuters
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