We introduce a new approach to monitoring the activity of smartphone users based on their
physical interactions with the interface. Typical events are taps, scrolling and ty**, carried …

Many of today's mobile products and services engage their users proactively via push
notifications. However, such notifications are not always delivered at the right moment …

Today's information and communication devices provide always-on connectivity, instant
access to an endless repository of information, and represent the most direct point of contact …

We analyzed 794,525 notifications from 278 mobile phone users and how they were
handled. Our study advances prior analyses in two ways: first, we systematically split …

A critical aspect of mobile just-in-time (JIT) health intervention is proper delivery timing,
which correlates with successfully promoting target behaviors. Despite extensive prior …

Notifications are commonly considered a distraction when they arrive during a task, and
consequently, prior research has consistently sought effective ways of deferring their arrival …

Prospective memory lapses, which involve forgetting to perform intended actions, affect
independent living in older adults. Although memory training using smartphone applications …

Visual attention is highly fragmented during mobile interactions, but the erratic nature of
attention shifts currently limits attentive user interfaces to adapting after the fact, ie after shifts …

Notifications are an indispensable feature of mobile devices, but their delivery can interrupt
and distract users. Prior work has examined interventions, such as deferring notification …

Time-killing on smartphones has become a pervasive activity, and could be opportune for
delivering content to their users. This research is believed to be the first attempt at time …