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Mobile Phone Talk in Context

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2005)

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In light of recent attempts to design context-aware mobile phones, this paper contributes by providing findings from a study of mobile phone talk in context. We argue the benefits of investigating empirically the ways in which a place is interactionally constituted as appropriate, or not, for a mobile phone conversation. Based on a study of naturally occurring mobile phone talk, we show how people handle calls in potentially difficult situations. Availability is negotiated, and it is not always agreed on whether a situation is appropriate. These findings pose challenges to the design of context-aware telephony.

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  1. Mobility, Interactive Institute, P.O. Box 240 81, SE-104 50, Stockholm, Sweden

    Mattias Esbjörnsson & Alexandra Weilenmann

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  1. Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, 15213-3891, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Anind Dey

  2. Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, 21 Montevideo Street, 1618, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Boicho Kokinov

  3. Computer Science Department, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

    David Leake

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, 04469, Orono, Maine, USA

    Roy Turner

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Esbjörnsson, M., Weilenmann, A. (2005). Mobile Phone Talk in Context. In: Dey, A., Kokinov, B., Leake, D., Turner, R. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3554. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11508373_11

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