Messaging in attention critical environments

A computer program product comprising:

• at least one computer readable storage medium that is not a transitory signal per se and program instructions stored on the at least one computer readable storage medium, the program instructions comprising instructions to:
• receive a message that is addressed to a user;
• determine a topic for, and a sender of, the message;
• determine, from information stored in a user profile, whether the topic and the sender are ignorable;
• determine, via one or more sensors, whether the user is currently operating a vehicle;
• automatically sending a message response in response to determining that the user is currently operating a vehicle and the topic and the sender are not ignorable;
• and
• on condition that the user is not currently operating a vehicle and the topic and the sender are not ignorable, conducting a user-directed response process comprising:
• conducting a text substitution process on the message to produce an abbreviated version of the message,
• presenting the abbreviated version of the message and a list of response options to the user,
• determining a response option that is selected by the user,
• sending a response to the message that corresponds to the response option that is selected by the user, and
• wherein the list of response options includes a plurality of message-dependent formulated responses.

A computer system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• at least one computer readable storage medium that is not a transitory signal per se and program instructions stored on the at least one computer readable storage medium, the program instructions comprising instructions to:
• receive a message that is addressed to a user;
• determine a topic for, and a sender of, the message;
• determine, from information stored in a user profile, whether the topic and the sender are ignorable;
• determine, via one or more sensors, whether the user is currently operating a vehicle;
• automatically sending a message response in response to determining that the user is currently operating a vehicle and the topic and the sender are not ignorable;
• and
• on condition that the user is not currently operating a vehicle and the topic and the sender are not ignorable, conducting a user-directed response process comprising:
• conducting a text substitution process on the message to produce an abbreviated version of the message,
• presenting the abbreviated version of the message and a list of response options to the user,
• determining a response option that is selected by the user,
• sending a response to the message that corresponds to the response option that is selected by the user, and
• wherein the list of response options includes a plurality of message-dependent formulated responses.