Notifications are extremely beneficial to users, but they often demand their attention at
inappropriate moments. In this paper we present an in-situ study of mobile interruptibility …

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 …

We present the results of our experiment aimed to comprehensively understand the
combination of 1) how smartphone users interact with their notifications, 2) what notification …

Notifications on mobile phones alert users about new messages, emails, social network
updates, and other events. However, little is understood about the nature and effect of such …

We analyzed 794,525 notifications from 278 mobile phone users and how they were
handled. Our study advances prior analyses in two ways: first, we systematically split …

Notifications are a core feature of mobile phones. They inform users about a variety of
events. Users may take immediate action or ignore them depending on the importance of a …

Every day, billions of us receive smartphone notifications. Designed to distract, these
interruptions capture and monetize our time and attention. Though smartphones are …

Today's smartphones will issue a notification immediately after an event occurs, repeating
unanswered notifications in fixed time intervals. The disadvantage of this issue-and-repeat …

Smartphones have become an indispensable part of everyday life. By this time, push
notifications are at the core of many apps, proactively pushing new content to users. These …

In today's advancing ubiquitous computing age, with its ever-increasing amount of
information from various applications and services available for consumption, the …