Balancing Awareness and Interruption: Investigation of Notification Deferral Policies
- Eric Horvitz ,
- Johnson Apacible ,
- Muru Subramani
We review experiments with bounded deferral, a method aimed
at reducing the disruptiveness of incoming messages and alerts in return
for bounded delays in receiving information. Bounded deferral provides
users with a means for balancing awareness about potentially urgent
information with the cost of interruption.