Workshop Theme and Goals
Users of digital devices are increasingly confronted with a tremendous amount of notifications that appear on multiple devices and screens in their environment. If a user owns a smartphone, a tablet, a smartwatch and a laptop and an email-client is installed on all of these devices an incoming email produces up to four notifications — one on each device. In the future we will receive notifications from all our ubiquitous devices. Therefore, we need an smart attention management for incoming notifications. One way for a less interrupting attention management could be the use of ambient representations of incoming notifications.
The goal of this workshop is to discuss how the problems of information overload and overchoice -- in our opinion two of the most relevant problems in information technology for the next few decades — can be solved. In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) we have to handle incoming notifications from all our devices. Together with developments in smart city environments or with smart mobility the information overload will grow. In this workshop we want to focus on a larger understanding of the different roles notifications can play in a wide variety of computing environments including the office, the home, in cars, and other smart environments.
Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Understanding behavior and habits around notifications
- Detection/prediction of availability, attention, and opportune moments for interruptions
- Ambient, peripheral, distributed and multimodal presentation of information or augmentation
- Timing of pro-active recommendations and user engagements
- Infrastructures, frameworks and tools for the development of smart attention systems
- Strategies for attention management from notifications of IoT devices
- Use of ambient representations for "BigData analysis"
- Management of information overload in "Smart City" environment and Cyber Physical Systems or "Smart Mobility" and Vehicle environment
Accepted Papers
We are very proud to have received so many excellent submissions. Please find a list of all 15 accepted papers below.
- Interuptibility Research: Opportunities for Future Flourishment
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Tadashi Okoshi, Jin Nakazawa, Hideyuki Tokuda - Assessment of Social Roles for Interruption Management: A New Concept in the Field of Interruptibility
Christoph Anderson, Clara Heissler, Sandra Ohly, Klaus David - An IoT Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Notifications in Intelligent Living Environments
Thomas Kubitza, Alexandra Voit, Dominik Weber, Albrecht Schmidt - How to Inform Privacy Agents on Preferred Level of User Control?
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Jessica Colnago, Hélio Crestena Guardia
Best Paper - TaskyApp: Inferring Task Engagement via Smartphone Sensing
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Gašper Urh, Veljko Pejović - Challenges for Designing Notifications for Affective Computing Systems
Mary Czerwinski, Ran Gilad-Bachrach, Shamsi Iqbal, Gloria Mark - The roles of Emojis in Mobile Phone Notifications
Channary Tauch, Eiman Kanjo - Demonstrator for Extracting Cognitive Load from Pupil Dilation for Attention Management Services
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Benedikt Gollan, Michael Haslgrübler, Alois Ferscha - Dynamic Guide Signs System to Control Pedestrian Flow
Haruno Kataoka, Kyoko Hashiguchi, Kae Wago, Yusuke Ichikawa, Hirohisa Tezuka, Shinichiro Yamashita, Yusaku Kuhara, Tetsuo Akiyama - Challenges in Designing and Implementing Adaptive Ambient Notification Environments
Frederik Wiehr, Alexandra Voit, Dominik Weber, Sven Gehring, Christoph Witte, Daniel Kärcher, Niels Henze, Antonio Krüger - Designing Natural Language Output for the IoT
Jhim Kiel M. Verame, Jacob Kittley-Davies, Enrico Costanza, Kirk Martinez - Preliminary Investigations About Interruptibility of Smartphone Users at Specific Place Types
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Anja Exler, Marcel Braith, Andrea Schankin, Michael Beigl - Envisioning an Ambient Smart Calendar to Support Aging in Place
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Alexandra Voit, Elizabeth Stowell, Dominik Weber, Christoph Witte, Daniel Kärcher, Niels Henze - Investigating Interruptibility at Activity Breakpoints using Smartphone Activity Recognition API
Mikio Obuchi, Wataru Sasaki, Tadashi Okoshi, Jin Nakazawa, Hideyuki Tokuda - Towards an Ambient Awareness Interface for Home Battery Storage System
Eiman Y. Elbanhawy, Andrew F. W. Smith, John Moore
Workshop Program
Workshop Location: Kammermusiksaal
09:30 - 09:45 | Interactive Welcome Session |
09:45 - 10:30 | Session 1: "IoT and Attention" (3 x 15 minutes)
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10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00 - 12:00 | Session 2: "Innovative and Ambient Notification" (4 x 15 minutes)
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12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
13:30 - 14:45 | Session 3: "Sensing Attentional Status" (5 x 15 minutes)
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14:45 - 15:30 | Group Discussion: "Identification of Emerging Challenges" |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00 - 16:45 | Session 4: "Future Challenges" (3 x 15 minutes)
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16:45 - 17:15 | Group Discussion: "Action Points for Emerging Challenges" |
17:15 - 17:30 | Closing Remarks and Future Planning |
19:00 - | Workshop Dinner @ Heidelberger Kulturbrauerei |
Important Dates
June 17, 2016 (23:59 AoE) | Submission Deadline |
June 28, 2016 | Notification of Acceptance |
July 3, 2016 | Camera Ready |
September 13, 2016 | Workshop Date (Full-Day) |
Submission Details
A paper should have a length of 2 to 6 pages (including references) in the SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format and will be reviewed by at least two workshop organisers. Successful submissions will have the potential to raise discussion, provide insights for other attendees, and illustrate open challenges and potential solutions. All accepted publications will be published on the workshop website and in the ACM Digital Library.
At least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the conference and the workshop itself. During the workshop, each paper will be given about 10 minutes for an oral presentation. In addition, there will be room for demonstrations and hands-on sessions.
Organising Committee
Alexandra Voit
University of Stuttgart
vis.uni-stuttgart.de
Benjamin Poppinga
Smarttention Systems
benjaminpoppinga.de
Dominik Weber
University of Stuttgart
weberdo.com
Matthias Böhmer
TH Köln
matthiasboehmer.de
Niels Henze
University of Stuttgart
nhenze.net
Sven Gehring
DFKI
dfki.de
Tadashi Okoshi
Keio University
okoshi.org
Veljko Pejovic
University of Ljubljana
lrss.fri.uni-lj.si
Contact
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