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Ambient communication adapts interpersonal remote communication to the activities of users and supports interactions that come as close as possible to face to face communication. Elements of both user, physical environment and system context are taken into account to support adaptation of the communication setup and to offer implicit and intuitive interaction with the system. User presence and availability are two of the key elements of context information used by ambient communication systems. In this paper, we discuss our approach to context-aware user presence management, and describe an implementation of a presence management service. This software leverages middleware and services developed by the Amigo project to estimate user presence and availability with respect to communication applications. We also show an example of a visual communication application using interfaces distributed in the user’s environment to support spatial interaction functionalities.
This work was partly funded by the IST-004182 Amigo project.
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Borkowski, S., Flury, T., Gerodolle, A., Privat, G. (2008). Ambient Communication and Context-Aware Presence Management. In: Mühlhäuser, M., Ferscha, A., Aitenbichler, E. (eds) Constructing Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2007. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85379-4_44
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