Nitin Sawhney, Sean Wheeler, Chris Schmandt

Abstract

People wish to maintain a level of awareness of timely information and activity of others in a variety of social settings at different times of day. Access to situationally relevant information in the shared environment of the participants provides a means for better exchange, coordination and negotiated order in a community. One approach to enhance community awareness combines sensing of audio/visual context with filtering and display of relevant information in a shared workspace. The challenge is to develop means for lightweight interaction and communication using these ’shared information appliances’.