Abstract
While guests in the office or a phone call can be pleasant sur-
prises, in the wrong moment they may be disrupting a time of focused
work and concentration. A lack of coordination between colleagues at
the work place can lead to unwanted interruptions and result in an inef-
ficient and unpleasant workplace. MATe (Mate for Awareness in Teams)
is a pervasive, ambient intelligent computing framework charged with
the task of preventing unwanted interruptions and improving social in-
teraction at the workplace of knowledge workers. We present a survey of
employees at a university in order to identify the attitudes of knowledge
workers towards interruptions as well as their opinions on a pervasive
system surveying and analyzing their behavior. Based on the results of
this survey a prototype has been developed using an ontology written in
OWL as a knowledge representation and logic-based reasoning to infer
the users’ status and interruptibility.
prises, in the wrong moment they may be disrupting a time of focused
work and concentration. A lack of coordination between colleagues at
the work place can lead to unwanted interruptions and result in an inef-
ficient and unpleasant workplace. MATe (Mate for Awareness in Teams)
is a pervasive, ambient intelligent computing framework charged with
the task of preventing unwanted interruptions and improving social in-
teraction at the workplace of knowledge workers. We present a survey of
employees at a university in order to identify the attitudes of knowledge
workers towards interruptions as well as their opinions on a pervasive
system surveying and analyzing their behavior. Based on the results of
this survey a prototype has been developed using an ontology written in
OWL as a knowledge representation and logic-based reasoning to infer
the users’ status and interruptibility.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of MRC 2011, Modeling and Reasoning in Context, 7th International Workshop at CONTEXT 2011 |
| Number of pages | 69 |
| Place of Publication | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| Publication date | 01.09.2011 |
| Pages | 58 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-161584137-0 |
| Publication status | Published - 01.09.2011 |
| Event | 9th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 2009 - Rhodes, Greece Duration: 08.06.2009 → 13.06.2009 |
