Ring: Should I Interrupt or Not? — A Mobile Interruption Management System

摘要

Mobile devices are increasing in an astronomical rate throughout the world. While it is bringing a lot of comfort to the users, it introduces new kinds of challenges. A user is susceptible to mobile call interruptions wherever he is, whether he is in the middle of a very important discussion or in a very important task like performing an emergency operation in a hospital. As a result, researchers have been studying to find ways to minimize cost of mobile interruptions. In this paper, we propose a mobile interruption management system in which callers have been grouped, and time intervals of a day have been classified to ascertain whether a call should be allowed to ring, go to silent or vibrate. We have also included presence of Bluetooth devices and applications the mobile user is using to decide if the user needs to be interrupted. We proposed a model for calculating predicted level of interruption, based on the contexts the user is in and then this cost is compared with a threshold value. If the cost of receiving the call is less than the threshold value, then device sound profile is set to ring, otherwise it is set to silent or vibrate. We have also evaluated our model with existing models and found that the system performs well.