Presence and IntComm WG

[Steve Blair <>]

Jeremy George wrote:

>   I missed this.  What an absolutely spectacular social tussle.  The 
> three
> people I'm meeting with vote down my wife's call to me, and I get to
> explain later that evening why her call was refused!
This is a good argument ofor (or against :-) ) prioritized whitelists.

>   Or, instead of having to stand up in front of a room and beg folks
> to shut off their cell phones maybe the particpants could, in effect,
> require that cell phones not receive non-emergency calls?
>
>   In a skiff or skiff-like environment the notion certainly seems at
> least theoretically possible.  What would a 'silent survey' look like?
> You wouldn't want to poll everyone for a response?  Maybe that could
> just be a part of a user's profile?  No non-emergency calls in
> meetings.
We had something like this working but the biggest problem was accurate
location information. The Microtik routers could only provide course 
location
feedback the way we were using them. So it was easy to fool. That being
said the test demonstrated that we could give a space a set of rules and 
let
it enforce the rules as contacts came and went.

I hope someday we can demostrate this again.

> - Jeremy
>
>
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Ben Teitelbaum wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:48:02 -0500
> > From: Ben Teitelbaum 
> > <>
> > Reply-To: 
> >
> > To: wg-pic 
> > <>
> > Subject: [wg-pic] Consensual Interruptions
> >
> > To complement Jeremy's posting, here's another nugget from the New
> > York Times.
> >
> > The NYT Magazine's annual "Year in Ideas" this week describes work
> > from MIT that solves the problem of unwanted interruptions of physical
> > meetings in a creative way using geo-location and real-time polling.
> > Basically, the people physically proximate to the called party are
> > polled quickly as to whether the call should go through.
> >
> > That the handling of a two-party call might be influenced by the
> > presence of others in the vicinity of the call is not an idea I've
> > considered before.  We've talked about room presence (e.g. there is a
> > class taking place in this room now), but not the notion that the room
> > presence would be determined dynamically by the surrounding people.
> >
> > Still many technical and social details to flesh out (and I really do
> > not know about the blinking squirrel!), but it's an interesting
> > notion...
> >
> >    The problem is all too familiar: You're chatting with a group of
> >    people when someone's cellphone goes off, interrupting the
> >    conversation. What makes the intrusion irritating isn't so much
> >    the call itself - the caller has no way of knowing if he has
> >    chosen a good time to cut in. It's that the group as a whole
> >    doesn't have any say in the matter. Until now.
> >
> >    Stefan Marti, a graduate of the M.I.T. Media Laboratory, who now
> >    works for Samsung, has devised a system that silently surveys the
> >    members of the group about whether accepting an incoming phone
> >    call would be appropriate. Then it permits the call to go through
> >    only if the group agrees unanimously - thus creating a more
> >    consensual sort of interruption.
> >
> >    more here:
> >    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/magazine/11ideas1-10.html
> >
> > -- ben
> >
> > --
> > Ben Teitelbaum   http://people.internet2.edu/~ben/

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