Hello There! Is Now a Good Time to Talk?: Opportune Moments for Proactive Conversational Interaction
summary
Built a voice-based experience-sampling device asks “Is now a good time to talk?” during a one-week field study with 40 dorm residents and collects 3,572 in-situ reports. Results show 53% interruptible responses, a manual taxonomy of 19 activity categories, and three decisive context types: personal (busyness, mood, channel availability), movement (departure vs inbound — inbound movement increases availability), and social presence. Proposes using multimodal sensing to time proactive smart‑speaker conversations.
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