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As smartphone notifications increase, so does the effort required to handle them effectively. Previous research has proposed various notification management features, but empirical evidence regarding their efficacy remains sparse. In response, we ...

People struggle with the overflow of smartphone notifications but often face two challenges: (1) prioritizing the informative notifications as they wish and (2) retaining the delivered information as long as they want to utilize it. In this paper, we ...

Localization based context awareness in mobile phones can enable several conveniences for users. This demonstration explores a way to smartly control notification and "Do not disturb" settings for the mobile phones based on the user's indoor location. ...

Smartphone users receive many notifications and frequently deactivate notifications from various application categories. To develop more intelligent notification systems in the future, knowledge of why users dismiss notifications is essential. ...

Notifications are one of the most important features of mobile devices. Users receive multitudes of notifications every day. These notifications often carry sensitive content such as private messages, financial information, authentication tokens, etc. ...

Our smartphones are constantly fighting to capture our attention, oftentimes causing significant disruption in professional and social contexts. In contrast with prior smart notification systems work focused on external contextual information (e.g., ...

Smartphones offer different modalities to inform about incoming notifications. They are perceived differently in terms of pleasantness and disruptiveness, depending on the receptivity and interruptibility of the user, among others. Contextual factors ...

We propose the design of MyButler, a sender-controlled notification management system that mitigates disruption caused by mobile instant messaging through sharing the receiver's activity information with the sender.

Today's smartphone notification systems are incapable of determining whether a notification has been successfully perceived without explicit interaction from the user. If the system incorrectly assumes that a notification has not been perceived, it may ...

Smartphone notifications provide application-specific information in real-time, but could distract users from in-person social interactions when delivered at inopportune moments. We explore breakpoint-based notification management, in which the ...

Smartphones are our ubiquitous, personal, wearable companions. Though, apart from their smartness and usefulness in our everyday lives they can cause displeasure. They allow us to be connected to a load of people and with a vast amount of apps - all of ...