Supporting User Awareness Using Smart Device-Based Notifications

This paper provides an overview of a doctoral research project which focuses in developing a framework to allow smart device-based notifications to provide user awareness. Notifications are mechanisms by which the user’s atten‐ tion is driven to specific tasks or events. Notifications should provide a balance between intrusiveness and value in order to avoid annoyed users. The results reported in this paper include 50 % of the overall results expected for the project. The first step was to conduct a systematic literature review assessing the use of smart devices to deliver notifications, the second step was the development of a framework to allow notification coordination among smart devices and the third result is a laboratory case study assessing the framework. Future work includes two case studies in real scenarios and further analysis of usage patterns identified during this research.Centro de Investigaciones en Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación/[]/CITIC/Costa RicaEscuela de Ciencias de la Computación e Informática/[]/ECCI/Costa RicaMinisterio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Telecomunicaciones de Costa Rica/[]/MICITT/Costa RicaConsejo Nacional para Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas/[]/CONICIT/Costa RicaUniversidad de Costa Rica/[834-B6-178]/UCR/Costa RicaUCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ingeniería::Centro de Investigaciones en Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (CITIC