The use of mobile, wearable, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies fosters unique
opportunities for designing novel intelligent positive computing services that address various …

Pupil diameter and microsaccades are captured by an eye tracker and compared for their
suitability as indicators of cognitive load (as beset by task difficulty). Specifically, two metrics …

Boredom is a common human emotion which may lead to an active search for stimulation.
People often turn to their mobile phones to seek that stimulation. In this paper, we tackle the …

The motivation behind using physiological measures to estimate cognitive activity is typically
to build technology that can help people to understand themselves and their work, or indeed …

Many of today's mobile products and services engage their users proactively via push
notifications. However, such notifications are not always delivered at the right moment …

System-generated alerts are ubiquitous in personal computing and, with the proliferation of
mobile devices, daily activity. While these interruptions provide timely information, research …

Notifications provide a unique mechanism for increasing the effectiveness of real-time
information delivery systems. However, notifications that demand users' attention at …

In today's ubiquitous computing environment where users carry, manipulate, and interact
with an increasing number of networked devices, applications and web services, human …

Information workers perform jobs that demand constant multitasking, leading to context
switches, productivity loss, stress, and unhappiness. Systems that can mediate task …

As vehicles of the future take on more of the driving responsibility and the role of the driver
transitions into more of a monitoring capacity, the traditional notions of interruption and …