Wearable Augmentation for Time Management

Roy Rodenstein royrod@cc.gatech.edu
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Abowd, Assistant Professor
Future Computing Lab, GVU Center
College of Computing, Georgia Tech

• OwnTime: A System for Timespace Management, ACM Computer-Human Interaction (CHI '99)
  Also available as PDF

  Abstract:

  We describe OwnTime, a system for facilitating timespace management, and discuss the results of a user study comparing the disruptiveness of meeting establishment without and with the system. The study indicates that the OwnTime system shows potential for improving users' time management. We also raise relevant issues about computer mediation in traditionally interpersonal tasks and note further work to be done in areas such as context-aware and wearable computing.

• Computer Augmentation for Meeting Time Management, GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-98-19
  Also available as PDF and PostScript.

  Abstract:

  Time, both one's own and others', is one of the most complex resources one must manage daily. As contact between computers and users grows closer and more constant, as in the case of wearable computers, new opportunities arise to facilitate time management. This paper describes OwnTime, a system which displays information in support of the user's meeting time management abilities and whose design emphasizes peripheral awareness and minimal cognitive load.

• see also OwnTime background information