Janne Lindqvist's recent work on smartphone interruptions has received a lot of attention in the popular media. The work done with his PhD students Fengpeng Yuan (CS) and Xianyi Gao (ECE) will be presented at CHI’17, the premier publication venue for human-computer interaction.
The work highlighted on scientific websites such as the NSF, AAAS and ACM, has also received worldwide coverage in widely circulated articles. Below are a few examples:
Tired of annoying phone alerts? New system could act as a 'secretary' to predict when you want to be left alone in the Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ sciencetech/article-4285696/ Tired-notifications-predicts- alert-you.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
Pardon the interruption: Here's how your smartphone could be less of a noodge in Network World
Smartphone notifications driving you crazy? This might help in the Economic Times
http://telecom.economictimes. indiatimes.com/news/ smartphone-notifications- driving-you-crazy-this-might- help/5754121
http://telecom.economictimes.
Congratulations to Janne on the wide attention for his work!
The full paper is available here:
and a 30 second video preview here: