A methodology and design process for system generated user interruption based on context, preferences, and situation awareness

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI-2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 608-616

  Godbole, Ashish ^a   Smari, Waleed W ^a  

^a University of Dayton   (United States)

Author keywords

Context aware systems; Information elicitation; Interruption handling; Usability engineering; User profiling and preference

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT AWARE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ELICITATION; INTERRUPTION HANDLING; USER PROFILING AND PREFERENCE;

COMPUTATION THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LOGIC DESIGN; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 34547480783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2006.252483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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