Multi-Channel, Context-Aware Notification on Wearable Devices, Nicky Kern and Bernt Schiele, In Workshop on Design and Evaluation of Notification Interfaces for Ubiquitous Computing, 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), Gothenburg, October 2002

Abstract:  Nowadays, people are equipped with ever more mobile devices, such as cell phones, pagers, PDAs, etc. They require the user's attention from time to time, and hence implement their own, distinct,  often simplistic notification mechanism. The resulting cognitive load, managing these multitude of notifications from different devices can be very high. In order to explicitly manage the scarce resource `user attention' we propose a context-aware notification system which uses the notification channels of all devices in a unified way. The system collects all notifications from the different devices and uses context information to distribute the notifications over the available channels. Such context information is, by nature, subject to uncertainty. By modeling this uncertainty explicitly, we aim toward a better multi--channel notification scheme.