On the Benefit of Adding User Preferences to Notification Delivery

Notifications may have a disruptive effect on users and the vision of a smart notification delivery is still an open question. Alternatively to existing user-opaque solutions, we identify the lack of significant end-user personalization features as one of the main issues in the "traditional" notification management. In this paper, we explore a preference-based approach towards smart notification delivery. By considering existing in-the-wild studies that directly involve users, we defined a set of preferences to customize the notification delivery, and we built a mobile application for their set up. We evaluated the understandability of such preferences, and the acceptance of our preference-based approach in a user study with 10 participants. Preliminary results show that the preferences were easily understood, and that users are willing to set them up.