09-10-2003, 06:00 AM
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Phones That Decide When to Ring
"We don't really see the need for either, but researchers at both Carnegie Mellon and the Human Media Lab at Queen's University in Canada are working on technology for phones that can sense when you're busy working or talking to someone and so won't ring and interrupt. Each works in a different way. The Human Media Lab system is a visual sensor that attaches to a desktop phone and figures out from your blinks and gazes whether you can take a call or not. Carnegie Mellon's SenSay is a combination of a light sensor, a motion detector, a microphone, and other sensors for cellphones which can guess what kind of environment you're in (say, a noisy garage) and then decide whether or not to put the call through or send back a text message saying you're indisposed..."
I don't know about this - it seems like the sheer number of variables would make it almost impossible to work effectively. How can it tell the difference between me sitting at my desk, available for a phone call, and sitting in a presentation? Both scenarios would have low-level ambient noise - I wonder how it would tell them apart?
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