Smarttention, Please! Intelligent Attention Management on Mobile Devices

ABSTRACT

Today, many users of mobile devices are continuously confronted with a huge variety of information: notifications from Facebook, new application updates, won badges, or reminders. This leads to an information overload, which makes it hard to stay focused. This workshop wants to investigate if smart attention management systems can be a solution and how such systems need to be designed. We welcome submissions that focus on the understanding of users and their current, mobile information handling. We further appreciate contributions that propose design concepts for the interaction with smart attention management systems. The expected workshop outcome is a summary of today's most recent challenges in the design and development of smart attention management systems.

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Index Terms

• Human-centered computing