Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have shaped today's user services, enabling
enhanced personalization and better support. As such AI-based services inevitably require …

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

Notifications are one of the core functionalities of smartphones. Previous research suggests
they can be a major disruption to the professional and private lives of users. This paper …

Over the years, mobile phones have become versatile devices with a multitude of
capabilities due to the plethora of embedded sensors that enable them to capture rich data …

Virtual reality (VR) has increasingly been used in many areas, and the need to deliver
notifications in VR is also expected to increase accordingly. However, untimely interruptions …

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) enabled digital assistants to evolve towards
proactive user support. However, expectations as to when and to what extent assistants …

Smartphones enable understanding human behavior with activity recognition to support
people's daily lives. Prior studies focused on using inertial sensors to detect simple activities …

Turning off push notifications is a common recommendation to reduce smartphone screen
time and to improve daily experiences of digital well-being. As only little empirical evidence …

Notifications are an indispensable feature of mobile devices, but their delivery can interrupt
and distract users. Prior work has examined interventions, such as deferring notification …

Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) is an in-the-moment data collection method which
avoids retrospective biases and maximizes ecological validity. A challenge in designing …