Paper Info
Title
Giving the caller the finger: collaborative responsibility for cellphone interruptions
Abstract
We present a system in which a cell phone decides whether to ring by accepting votes from the others in a conversation with the called party. When a call comes in, the phone first determines who is in the conversation by using a decentralized network of autonomous body-worn sensor nodes. It then vibrates all participants' wireless finger rings. Although the alerted people do not know if it is their own cellphones that are about to interrupt, each of them has the possibility to veto the call anonymously by touching his/her finger ring. If no one vetoes, the phone rings. A user study showed significantly more vetoes during a collaborative group-focused setting than during a less group oriented setting. Our system is a component of a larger research project in context-aware computer-mediated call control.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1056808.1056984
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
decentralized network,wireless finger ring,cellphone interruption,finger ring,context-aware computer-mediated call control,own cellphones,autonomous body-worn sensor node,phone ring,user study,larger research project,cell phone,collaborative responsibility,mobile communication,social intelligence
Conference
1-59593-002-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
1.24
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefan Marti119514.86
Chris Schmandt21579270.80