Attuning notification design to user goals and attention costs

1 March 2003

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 46 (3) , 67-72
https://doi.org/10.1145/636772.636800

Abstract

Why is the attentive user interface paradigm important for human-computer interaction? The human attention system is so sensitive to various methods of notification that traditional design involves too much compromise and guesswork.

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