This book presents an alternative approach to studying smartphone-app user notifications. It starts with insights into user acceptance of mobile notifications in order to provide tools to support users in managing these. It extends previous research by investigating factors that influence users' perception of notifications and proposes tools addressing the shortcomings of current systems. It presents a technical framework and testbed as an approach for evaluating the usage of mobile applications and notifications, and then discusses a series of studies based on this framework that investigate factors influencing users' perceptions of mobile notifications. Lastly, a set of design guidelines for the usage of mobile notifications is derived that can be employed to support users in handling notifications on smartphones.

Presents an alternative approach to studying smartphone-app user notifications Examines our understanding of user acceptance of app notifications in order to provide tools to support users Investigates factors that influence users' perception of notifications and proposes tools addressing the shortcomings of current systems Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

Introduction.- Background and Related Work.- Framework and Testbed for Tracing Mobile Application Usage.- Global Analysis of User Behavior in the Field.- Permission Requests and Notification Settings.- Receptivity to Notifications.- General Conclusions.