In the last ten years, it was observed that the continuous upgrades in mobile device's
technology have increased and demonstrated their great potential in various learning …

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 …

Background: Mobile health (mHealth) apps provide an opportunity for easy, just-in-time
access to health promotion and self-management support. However, poor user engagement …

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 …

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

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 …

Today's information and communication devices provide always-on connectivity, instant
access to an endless repository of information, and represent the most direct point of contact …

Smartphone notifications provide application-specific information in real-time, but could
distract users from in-person social interactions when delivered at inopportune moments …

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 …

Voice assistants, such as Amazon's Alexa and Google Home, increasingly find their way into
consumer homes. Their functionality, however, is currently limited to being passive answer …