Its a modern problem:youre too busy to be disturbed by incessantphone less busy.you could miss some important calls if only the phone knew when it was wise to are not too busy analyzing your behavior to determine if its a good time to interrupt you.If built into a phone,the James Fogarty and Scott Hudson at Camegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania based their First they had to study different behaviors to find out which ones stongly predict whether your The potentialbusynesssignals they focused on included whether the office doors were left were to each other, and whether or not the computer was in use. random intervals,the subjects rated how interruptible they were on a scale ranging fromhighly behaviors . It is a shotgunapproach:we used all the indicators we could think of and The model showed that using the keyboard,and talking on a landline or to someone else in Interestingly,the computer was actually better than people at predicting when someone was Fogarty speculates that this might be because people doing the interrupting are inevitably biased The first application for Hudson and Fogartys system is likely to be in an instant messaging system,followed by office phones and cellphones.There is no technological roadblock 36 A big problem facing people today is that B they must turn off their phones to keep their homes quiet. D they are too busy to make phone calls. A could help store messages. C could tell when it is wise to interrupt you. 38 Scientists at Carnegie Menon University tried to find out B when it was a good time to turn off the computer. D which behaviors could tell whether a person was busy A to control the sensors and the camera. C to compare their behaviors with others. 40 The computer performed better than people in the study because B the computer was not busy D people were not good at statistics.
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