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.
Following last year's successful UbiTtention 2016 workshop, the UbiTtention 2017 workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry.
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
- Understanding users' behavior and habits around notifications and interruptions, including longer term user engagement and behavior change
- Use of ambient representations for big data analysis
- Management of information overload in smart city environments and cyber physical systems or smart mobility and vehicle environments
Accepted Papers
We are very proud to have received so many excellent submissions. Please find a list of all 15 accepted papers below.
- Designing Architecture of a Rule-Based System for Managing Phone Call Interruptions
Iqbal H. Sarker, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Alan Colman, Jun Han - What Do Smartphone Users Do when They Sense Phone Notifications?
Yung-Ju Chang, Yi-Ju Chung, Yi-Hao Shih, Hsiu-Chi Chang, Tzu-Hao Lin
Best Paper - Who Matters: A Closer Look at Interpersonal Relationship in Mobile Interruptibility
Kuan-Yin Chen, Hao-Ping Lee, Chih-Heng Lin, Yung-Ju Chang - Understanding Recency-Based Behavioral Model for Individual Mobile Phone Users
Iqbal H. Sarker, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Alan Colman, Jun Han - People's Interruptibility in-the-wild: Analysis of Breakpoint Detection Model in a Large-Scale Study
Kota Tsubouchi, Tadashi Okoshi - How Blocking Distractions Affects Workplace Focus and Productivity
Gloria Mark, Shamsi Iqbal, Mary Czerwinski
Best Presentation - Investigating Contextual Cues as Indicators for EMA Delivery
Varun Mishra, Byron Lowens, Sarah Lord, Kelly Caine, David Kotz - Symbiotic Attention Management in the Context of Internet of Things
Shahram Jalaliniya, Thomas Pederson, Diako Mardanbegi - Using Corneal Imaging for Measuring a Human's Visual Attention
Christian Lander, Felix Kosmalla, Frederik Wiehr, Sven Gehring - Exploration of Tactile Feedback In BI&A Dashboards
Erik Pescara, Maximilian Iberl, Ida Rockenbach, Xueying Yuan, Alexander Klein - Emu: Engagement Modeling for User Studies
Bo-Jhang Ho, Bharathan Balaji, Nima Nikzad, Mani Srivastava - Probing calmness in applications using a calm display prototype
Jan Kučera, James Scott, Nicholas Chen - Investigating The Perceptibility of Different Notification Types on Smartphones Depending on the Smartphone Position
Anja Exler, Christian Dinse, Zeynep Günes, Nadim Hammoud, Steffen Mattes, Michael Beigl - Towards Cognitive Awareness: A Mobile Context Modeling- and Notification-based Approach
Akhil Mathur, Fahim Kawsar - Application Overchoice: Preliminary Lessons from a Longitudinal Study
Lakshmi Manasa Kalanadhabhatta, Akhil Mathur, Rahul Majethia, Fahim Kawsar
Workshop Program
09:00 - 09:10 | Interactive welcome session |
09:10 - 10:00 |
Presentations: "Smartphone Interruptibility" (5 x 10 minutes)
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10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
10:30 - 11:20 |
Presentations: "Beyond Interruptibility" (5 x 10 minutes)
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11:20 - 11:40 | Short break |
11:40 - 12:30 |
Presentations: "Calmness and Overload" (5 x 10 minutes)
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12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
13:30 - 15:00 | Group discussions, part 1 |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
15:30 - 17:00 | Group discussions, part 2 |
17:00 - 17:35 | Closing remarks and future planning |
Important Dates
June 23, 2017 (23:59 AoE) | Submission Deadline (extended) |
June 30, 2017 | Notification of Acceptance |
July 14, 2017 | Camera Ready |
September 12, 2017 | 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 time for an oral presentation. In addition, there will be room for demonstrations and hands-on sessions.
Organising Committee
Tadashi Okoshi
Keio University
okoshi.org
Anja Exler
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
teco.edu
Alexandra Voit
University of Stuttgart
vis.uni-stuttgart.de
Dominik Weber
University of Stuttgart
weberdo.com
Martin Pielot
Telefonica Research
pielot.org
Benjamin Poppinga
Smarttention Systems
benjaminpoppinga.de
Niels Henze
University of Stuttgart
nhenze.net
Sven Gehring
DFKI
dfki.de
Matthias Böhmer
TH Köln
matthiasboehmer.de
SeungJun Kim
Carnegie Mellon University
cs.cmu.edu
Veljko Pejovic
University of Ljubljana
lrss.fri.uni-lj.si
Contact
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