Facilitating Mobile Communication with Annotated Messages

Author

Al-Sultany, Ghaidaa ; Li, Maozhen ; Jan, Sadaqat ; Al-Raweshidy, Hamed

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Brunel Univ., Uxbridge, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

June 29 2010-July 1 2010

Firstpage

755

Lastpage

760

Abstract

The widespread usage of SMS messaging system reflects its importance for the users of mobile phones. However, it is becoming extremely laborious for users to manually write, read and reply every single SMS message due to an increasing high volume of SMS messages received. This paper presents SAMS a semi-automated message annotation system, which facilitates mobile communication with annotated messages. Two scenarios are presented showing that SMS messages can be answered automatically by software agent on behalf of mobile users. As a result, the workload of users in using SMS messages can be significantly reduced.

Keywords

electronic messaging; mobile communication; mobile handsets; software agents; telecommunication computing; SMS message; SMS messaging system; annotated messages; mobile communication; mobile phones; mobile users; semi-automated message annotation system; software agent; Calendars; Context-aware services; Message service; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Software agents; XML; Mobile computing; context aware computing; message annotation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology (CIT), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bradford

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7547-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIT.2010.145

Filename

5578108