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I’m Interested, but Can/Would Only Skim It: Studying Smartphone Users’ Receptivity to News Notifications

Published: 24 September 2021 Publication History

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News notifications have become an important way for users to access news. But news notifications sent at an inopportune moment may not be processed sufficiently, which is one of the contributing reasons for misinformation dissemination. We built a news app called NewsMoment, and observed five users’ receptivity to its news notifications. We found that these users 60% of the time only spent less than 30 seconds on notified news, regardless of their high interests in them. Furthermore, they mostly regarded themselves as having read the complete content. This suggests investigation of opportune moments for news notification delivery may be needed to improve users’ processing of news.

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UbiComp/ISWC '21 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
September 2021
711 pages
ISBN:9781450384612
DOI:10.1145/3460418
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Published: 24 September 2021

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  1. Mobile News Reading
  2. News Notification
  3. Notification Receptivity
  4. Opportune Moment

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  • Ministry of Science and Technology, R.O.C

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