What is the potential for context aware communication aids?

What is the potential for context aware communication aids?

Use of voice output communication aids (VOCAs) can be a very effective strategy to assist people with speech impairments in communicating. Despite this, people who use communication aids often express frustration with VOCAs-desiring devices that are simpler, quicker and more effective to use. Whilst it is not possible to resolve all these issues with technology, it is argued that significant pr...

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AwareCon: Situation Aware Context Communication

Ubicomp environments impose tough constraints on networks, including immediate communication, low energy consumption, minimal maintenance and administration. With the AwareCon network, we address these challenges by prescribing an integrated architecture that differs from classical networking by featuring an awareness of the surrounding situation and context. In various settings, where AwareCon...

HEP: context-aware communication system

Users may sometimes be overloaded with work so that they become temporally unable to handle incoming communications. Context aware systems are a promising approach to facilitate daily-life activities, especially providing assistance for communication management. After having surveyed the different challenges to build context-aware systems (e.g. modeling, reasoning about context), we introduce h...

SocioNet: A Context-Aware Approach for Lowering the Communication Barrier

Social networking platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, foster new social interactions. Following this vision, we introduce SocioNet, a context-aware and rule-based system for mobile devices that finds best matching persons in proximity and therefore establishes contacts. The system architecture is a hybrid central server and P2P architecture supporting matchmaking. As concerns for social pl...