comMotion

Abstract

How many times have you gone to the grocery store but left the grocery list on the refrigerator door? Wouldn't it be more efficient to have a reminder to buy groceries and the shopping list delivered to you when you were in the vicinity of the store? We live in a world in which the information overload is part of our daily life. Many of us receive large quantities of email or voice mail messages. Yet many of these messages are relevant only in a particular context. We can use a system of reminders to keep up with all we have to do, but these reminders are often relevant only to a specific location. If reminders, to-do lists, messages and other information were delivered in the most timely and relevant context, part of the overload would be reduced. This paper describes comMotion, a context-aware communication system for a mobile or wearable computing platform. KeywordeMobile, ubiquitous and wearable computing; locationaware, context-aware applications.

CybreMinder: A Context-Aware System for Supporting Reminders

“…The comMotion project [13] moved beyond this by using a combination of location and time information to deliver relevant messages. When a reminder message is created, a location is associated with it.…”

Memoro: Using Large Language Models to Realize a Concise Interface for Real-Time Memory Augmentation

“…Memory augmentation and information retrieval systems have been of key interest to the HCI community over the past several decades as tools to address these growing challenges. Since Vannevar Bush's conception of the Memex in 1945 [12], there has been extensive work on systems and devices to extend our memory [17,18,39,60] such as lifelogging systems that continuously record the user's media and signals [34,44,69], and just-in-time information retrieval systems [7,22,36,45,60] that provide relevant information based on the user's context. While these wearable systems demonstrate the capabilities of users to retrieve vast amounts of information, limited research exists on designing interfaces that enable the retrieval of information in a minimally disruptive way when the user is already engaged in a primary task, which is often the case with wearables.…”