Attentive Notifications: Minimizing Distractions of Mobile Notifications Through Gaze Tracking

Late Breaking Work at ACM MobileHCI '23

by Sebastian Hueber, Eunae Jang, and Jan Borchers

Abstract

Notifications on smartphones typically appear at the top of the screen, resulting in interruptions caused by content overlaps of toolbars and potential accidental activation of a notification. As returning to a workflow which got interrupted proves difficult for the general user, interface designers should thoughtfully design the visual disruption caused by notifications. We explore possible designs of gaze-attentive notifications to overcome this issue. By placing the notification banner as far from the user's current gazing point as possible they result in less visual overlap and our study participants experienced them as less distracting.

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Authors

Sebastian
Hueber

Eunae
Jang

Jan
Borchers

Publications

    2023

  • Sebastian Hueber, Eunae Jang and Jan Borchers. Attentive Notifications: Minimizing Distractions of Mobile Notifications through Gaze Tracking.  In Press of Proceedings of MobileHCI ’23 Companion, Association for Computing Machinery, September 2023.
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