TY - GEN
T1 - Designing an effective vibration-based notification interface for mobile phones
AU - Saket, Bahador
AU - Prasojo, Chrisnawan
AU - Huang, Yongfeng
AU - Zhao, Shengdong
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PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We conducted an experiment to understand how mobile phone users perceive the urgency of ten simple vibration alerts that were created from four basic signals: short on, short off, long on, and long off. The short and long signals correspond to 200 ms and 600 ms, respectively. To convey the level of urgency of notifications and help users prioritize them, the design of mobile phone vibration alerts should consider that the gap length preceding or succeeding a signal, the number of gaps in the vibration pattern, and the vibration's duration affect an alert's perceived level of urgency. Our study specifically shows that shorter gap lengths between vibrations (200 ms vs. 600 ms), a vibration pattern with one gap instead of two, and shorter vibration all contribute to making the user perceive the alert as more urgent. Copyright 2013 ACM.
AB - We conducted an experiment to understand how mobile phone users perceive the urgency of ten simple vibration alerts that were created from four basic signals: short on, short off, long on, and long off. The short and long signals correspond to 200 ms and 600 ms, respectively. To convey the level of urgency of notifications and help users prioritize them, the design of mobile phone vibration alerts should consider that the gap length preceding or succeeding a signal, the number of gaps in the vibration pattern, and the vibration's duration affect an alert's perceived level of urgency. Our study specifically shows that shorter gap lengths between vibrations (200 ms vs. 600 ms), a vibration pattern with one gap instead of two, and shorter vibration all contribute to making the user perceive the alert as more urgent. Copyright 2013 ACM.
KW - Alerts
KW - Mobile phone
KW - Notifications
KW - Perceived urgency
KW - Vibration patterns
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U2 - 10.1145/2441776.2441946
DO - 10.1145/2441776.2441946
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9781450313315
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 1499
EP - 1504
BT - CSCW 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
T2 - 2013 2nd ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2013
Y2 - 23 February 2013 through 27 February 2013
ER -