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Interpretable Machine Learning for Mobile Notification Management: An Overview of PrefMiner

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Abhinav Mehrotra,

Robert Hendley,

Mirco MusolesiAuthors Info & Claims

GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, Volume 21, Issue 2

Pages 35 - 38

https://doi.org/10.1145/3131214.3131225

Published: 04 August 2017 Publication History

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Mobile notifications are increasingly used by a variety of applications to inform users about events, news or just to send alerts and reminders to them. However, many notifications are neither useful nor relevant to users' interests and, for this reason, they are considered disruptive and potentially annoying, as well. PrefMiner is a novel interruptibility management solution that learns users' preferences for receiving notifications based on automatic extraction of rules by mining their interaction with mobile phones. PrefMiner aims at being intelligible and interpretable for users, i.e., not just a "black box" solution, by suggesting rules to users who might decide to accept or discard them at run-time. The design of PrefMiner is based on a large scale mobile notification dataset and its effectiveness is evaluated by means of an in-the-wild deployment.

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GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications Volume 21, Issue 2

June 2017

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ISSN:2375-0529

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DOI:10.1145/3131214

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