We report from the Do Not Disturb Challenge where 30 volunteers disabled notification
alerts for 24 hours across all devices. The effect of the absence of notifications on the …

We asked 12 people to disable notification alerts for 24 hours on all computing devices. We
collected data through open post-hoc interviews and analyzed the qualitative data using …

Notifications on mobile devices are a prominent source of interruptions. Previous work
suggests using opportune moments to deliver notifications to reduce negative effects. In this …

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 …

Push notifications keep user informed and engaged with the events around the mobile
applications. However not all the notifications are of the same importance level to the user …

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

Desktop notifications are designed to provide awareness of information while a user is
attending to a primary task. Unfortunately the awareness can come with the price of …

Notifications are commonly considered a distraction when they arrive during a task, and
consequently, prior research has consistently sought effective ways of deferring their arrival …

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 …