Designing content-driven intelligent notification mechanisms for mobile applications

Abhinav Mehrotra, Mirco Musolesi, Robert Hendley

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Abstract

An increasing number of notifications demanding the smartphone user's attention, often arrive at an inappropriate moment, or carry irrelevant content. In this paper we present a study of mobile user interruptibility with respect to notification content, its sender, and the context in which a notification is received. In a real-world study we collect around 70,000 instances of notifications from 35 users. We group notifications according to the applications that initiated them, and the social relationship between the sender and the receiver. Then, by considering both content and context information, such as the current activity of a user, we discuss the design of classifiers for learning the most opportune moment for the delivery of a notification carrying a specific type of information. Our results show that such classifiers lead to a more accurate prediction of users' interruptibility than an alternative approach based on user-defined rules of their own interruptibility.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUbiComp '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages813-824
ISBN (Print)9781450335744
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Sept 2015
EventUbiComp '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing - Osaka, Japan
Duration: 7 Sept 201511 Sept 2015

Conference

ConferenceUbiComp '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityOsaka
Period7/09/1511/09/15

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