Title
Large-scale assessment of mobile notifications
Abstract
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 notification as well as their current context. The nature of notifications is manifold, applications use them both sparsely and frequently. In this paper we present the first large-scale analysis of mobile notifications with a focus on users' subjective perceptions. We derive a holistic picture of notifications on mobile phones by collecting close to 200 million notifications from more than 40,000 users. Using a data-driven approach, we break down what users like and dislike about notifications. Our results reveal differences in importance of notifications and how users value notifications from messaging apps as well as notifications that include information about people and events. Based on these results we derive a number of findings about the nature of notifications and guidelines to effectively use them.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2556288.2557189
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
large-scale analysis,mobile notification,large-scale assessment,mobile phone,immediate action,current context,holistic picture,core feature,data-driven approach,users value notification,messaging apps
World Wide Web,Internet privacy,Computer science,Mobile phone,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
52
2.21
16
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alireza Sahami Shirazi172842.82
Niels Henze21262108.47
Tilman Dingler328137.00
Martin Pielot476850.22
Dominik Weber513713.96
Albrecht Schmidt66495696.81