GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-00-27
Title:
Building a Better Intercom: Context-Mediated Communication within the Home
Authors:
Cory D. Kidd
Thomas O'Connell
Kris Nagel
Sameer Patil
Gregory D. Abowd
Abstract:
As we enable everyday environments with ubiquitous technology, there are
many opportunities to support simple activities in useful ways. We are
investigating how an environment made aware of the location and
activities of its occupants can better support direct human-human
communication. Specifically, we have instrumented a home to explore
lightweight, spontaneous hands-free communication between residents in
different parts of the home. Our working prototype demonstrates how
existing technologies of voice recognition, indoor positioning and audio
routing lay the foundation for the exploration of a variety of more
intelligent alternatives to the traditional home intercom system. We show
how context can be used to mediate the initiation and management of one-
and two-way audio connections between residents, supporting a range of
within-home conversational patterns. In this paper, we describe a
variety of home communication scenarios and the general infrastructure we
have built to explore them.
Keywords:
Home, audio, ubiquitous computing, computer-mediated human-human
communication, context-aware computing
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