Augmenting personal availability using a mobile device

摘要

A method of augmenting an online presence by leveraging mobile computing device (2) sensors (40) is disclosed. The method comprises the step of the mobile computing device (2) receives at least one of state change data (60) and rate of change data (62) measured by the mobile computing device (2) sensors (40). The mobile computing device (2) compares the at least one of state change data (60) and rate of change data (62) with a set of rules (50) to determine a matching online presence state. The set of rules (50) is configured to associate a plurality of online presence states with a plurality of instances of measured sensor data. The measured sensor data comprises data attributes and communication usage data associated with the mobile computing device (2). The mobile computing device (2) updates an online presence associated with the user of the mobile computing device (2) with the matching online presence state (52).