Open Door: Encouraging Welcome Ca
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Brandon Burr & Andy Stanford University, Department of Computer Science 353 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 {bburr, andyszy}@stanford.edu ABSTRACT Past forays into mobile context applications have focused on preventing unwanted communications in a work environment. Open Door is a system for sharing status on mobile phones that encourages welcome calls and lowers barriers to communication in a social context. We discuss the tradeoffs between availability-based and activity-based systems, and explore the effects of providing a fixed set of statuses from which to choose. We have conducted a study with two groups of users and preliminary results are encouraging.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005