Author: martin

Notifications on mobile phones alert users about new messages, emails, social network updates, and other events. However, little is understood about the nature and effect of such notifications on the daily lives of mobile users. Hence, we conducted a one-week, in-situ study involving 15 mobile phones users, where we collected real-world notifications through a smartphone […]

Last Seen = Fast Response? When sending a message with WhatsApp, senders often check the receivers “last seen” status to judge whether the message will be read soon. It shows when the receiver had last openend the application. “it gives me a timeframe and allows me to estimate when my message will be read” Intuitively, […]

Roughly 1/3 of all phones calls are not picked up. With this work, we explored whether the called phone can know in advance, whether its user is likely to pick up a call. This would allow to, amongst other things, communicate (non)availability in advance to the call or trigger intelligent muting. Large-Scale Evaluation of Call-Availability […]

“Didn’t you see my message?!” For the younger generations, not receiving a timely response to a SMS or message is a major source of irritation and frustration. However, people cannot or do not want to always attend to their phones all the time. What if your phone would infer these situations and communicate them to […]