Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  OMM: Mantra for Mobile Devices (04 Jul 2005) OMM provides a rich representation of a worker’s lifestyle. It offers time-sensitive profiles that enable you to specify context-sensitive preferences about messaging during such settings as work, home, and vacation, and it will react according to the settings you have selected. It can be configured to deliver messages at a variety of priority levels, from all items to only those of highest urgency. And if you’re using a computer away from your office, it knows about the messages you’ve already seen and won’t send those to your mobile device. One cool feature in the application is presence forecasting, an ability to estimate when a user might again be online when they leave a desktop computer. OMM examines usage patterns and makes a prediction on when a user will return to the computer. It uses this functionality to decide when to send messages to users. And OMM can save users money, too. For those whose connectivity-plan cost is based on usage, the service can set message limits, break them into pieces, and limit the number of messages sent per day. Its alerting simulator feature can estimate how many messages would be sent to a device per day with a given set of settings, which can then be adjusted to a preferred level. All in all, the service provided by OMM can be habit-forming. Article URL: http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=1287 Read 142 more articles from Microsoft sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Open source: a chance for technology in education?     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy