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Lilsys: Sensing Unavailability

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As communications systems increasingly gather and propagate information about people's reachability or ``presence'', users need better tools to minimize undesired interruptions while allowing desired ones. We review the salient elements of presence and availability that people use when initiating face-to-face communication. We discuss problems with current strategies for managing one's availability in telecommunication media. We describe a prototype system called <b>Lilsys</b> which passively collects availability cues gathered from users' actions and environment using ambient sensors and provides machine inferencing of unavailability. We discuss observations and design implications from deploying <b>Lilsys</b>.

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CSCW '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
November 2004
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DOI:10.1145/1031607
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  1. Lilsys
  2. availability
  3. contact negotiation
  4. context-aware computing
  5. instant messaging (IM)
  6. presence
  7. sensors
  8. telecommunication

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