Balancing Awareness and Interruption: Investigation of Notification Deferral Policies

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: UM
• Authors: Eric Horvitz, Johnson Apacible, Muru Subramani
• Keywords: Deferral Provides Users, Delays, UM 2005, Urgent Information