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A phone that knows you're busy

By Celeste Biever

15 March 2003

IT’S a modern conundrum: you’re too busy to be disturbed by incessant phone calls so you turn your cellphone off. But if you don’t remember to turn it back on when you’re less busy, you could miss some important calls. If only the phone knew when it was wise to interrupt you, you wouldn’t have to turn it off at all. Instead, itcould let calls through during spells of relative inactivity.

A bunch of behaviour sensors and a clever piece of software could do just that, by analysing your behaviour to determine if it’s a good time to interrupt you.…

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