handiMessenger: Awareness-Enhanced Universal Communication for Mobile Users

摘要: Successfully contacting colleagues while away from the office is especially difficult without information about their availability and location. HandiMessenger a service designed to facilitate opportunistic communication by tightly integrating awareness contact capabilities into wireless, unified messaging application. Users can securely access intranet email, instant messages, other messages handheld mobile device (e.g., wireless PDA). Simultaneously, they are presented with sender enable reply in most appropriate mode, given situation of participants. For example, read email initiating phone call, if available phone. Analysis handiMessenger usage shows that users do request inspecting message headers or content, also, at times, respond different type mode than original message.