On 13-06-26 04:00 AM, Zisu Andrei wrote: > > There's no idea in Randall's email. If a user doesn't want to be > disturbed by incoming calls, he should mute his phone. The essay > in the link complained that his phone showed 20 missed calls. In > that case, the user should activate airplane mode. > > > Randall's stated goal is that he doesn't want others to call him > on the phone unless they've scheduled in advance, and the way you > enforce that is to turn on your phone 5 minutes before the > scheduled time. > > > I'm honestly not sure you understand the use case. > > What Randall and the essay guy are proposing is to have a list of > accepted contacts for a certain phone profile. Say I'm at work, I > only want to recieve calls from my girlfriend and mum and maybe some > call that that I have scheduled in my calendar. All the the others can > be either rejected, or rejected and smsd or something. > > I'm pretty sure I saw that on my dad's old Nokia (6303, Symbian). > > > > Zisu Andrei
Yes, this clarifies the use case I was attempting to describe. Thank you
Zisu!
To add more detail:
1) The phone remains on, always. Though convenient from an
implementation/programming standpoint, I'm not interested in the no
phone, or phone off "solutions". I have that now.
2) The phone "knows" who can interrupt me with an inbound call, and who
cannot. Scheduled people can obviously interrupt me, and so can a list
of people that are appropriate for my current location/context. Some
examples:
a) I'm at work. My customer (boss) and some immediate project/team
members can interrupt me. Friends and other contacts cannot.
b) I'm taking public transit. No interruptions are allowed as I
cannot have a meaningful (or private) discussion on a crowded train.
c) I'm on a forced "no contact with work" vacation (banks do this to
help prevent fraud). Anyone with a work context may not interrupt me,
but others may.
d) I'm at UDS (or vUDS) and hosting an important session. A relative
is having surgery at the same time. I want no interruptions except if
its an emergency.
e) I never want to take a call from a person who is stalking me.
Without getting into a detailed design, I can envision the phone taking
cues about context from:
i) GPS (Where am i? How fast is my position changing? Am I at an
unusually high altitude?)
ii) My calendar (am i scheduled to have a call with someone now, or soon?)
iii) Parameters in my contacts list (Is this person on a list that
permits them to interrupt me? e.g. sabdfl always has that privilege.)
iv) Voice recognition (e.g. Similar to the way call-screening works on
voice mail, the person needs to say the nature of the call, and voice is
pattern-matched to determine who it is before sounding the ring tone)
I hope this clarifies further.
Cheers,
Randall.
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