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Balancing Awareness and Interruption: Investigation of Notification Deferral Policies

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User Modeling 2005 (UM 2005)

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We review experiments with bounded deferral, a method aimed at reducing the disruptiveness of incoming messages and alerts in return for bounded delays in receiving information. Bounded deferral provides users with a means for balancing awareness about potentially urgent information with the cost of interruption.

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  1. Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington, 98052, USA

    Eric Horvitz, Johnson Apacible & Muru Subramani

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Corso Svizzera 185, 10149, Torino, Italy

    Liliana Ardissono

  2. The SCRE Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Eldon Street, P.O. Box, G3 6NH, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Paul Brna

  3. Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, P.O. Box, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Antonija Mitrovic

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Horvitz, E., Apacible, J., Subramani, M. (2005). Balancing Awareness and Interruption: Investigation of Notification Deferral Policies. In: Ardissono, L., Brna, P., Mitrovic, A. (eds) User Modeling 2005. UM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3538. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11527886_59

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