A toolkit for managing user attention in peripheral displays

Matthews, Tara; Dey, Anind K.; Mankoff, Jennifer; Carter, Scott L.; Rattenbury, Tye

doi:10.1145/1029632.1029676

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“…In their work, Matthews et al define multiple attention levels: inattention, divided attention and focused attention [16]. Inattention defines a state, in which information is not consciously observed, while divided attention means that information is consciously perceived but does not require the fully focused attention of the user yet.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To gradually grab the user's attention along the attention levels defined by Matthews et al [16], the output of the Ambient Timer needs to gradually become more salient. In order to increase the saliency of the display to gain attention over time two forms of transition appear to be feasible: First, a sine wave change where the display alternates back and forth between two states with increasingly faster cycles.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Ambient Timer – Unobtrusively Reminding Users of Upcoming Tasks with Ambient Light

Müller

Kazakova

Pielot

et al. 2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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Abstract. Daily office work is often a mix of concentrated desktop work and scheduled meetings and appointments. However, constantly checking the clock and alarming popups interrupt the flow of creative work as they require the user's focused attention. We present Ambient Timer, an ambient light display designed to unobtrusively remind users of upcoming events. The light display -mounted around the monitor -is designed to slowly catch the user's attention and raise awareness for an upcoming event while not distracting her from the primary creative task such as writing a paper. Our experiment compared established reminder techniques such as checking the clock or using popups against Ambient Timer in two different designs. One of these designs produced a reminder in which the participants felt well informed on the progress of time and experienced a better "flow" of work than with traditional reminders.

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Ambient Timer – Unobtrusively Reminding Users of Upcoming Tasks with Ambient Light

Müller

Kazakova

Pielot

et al. 2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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“…Although the initial idea of calm technology did not specifically focus on peripheral perception, by far most of the work it inspired aimed to develop and evaluate visual and auditory displays which subtly present information such that people can perceive it in their periphery of attention [4,[22][23][24][25][26]. An early example of a calm technology design is the Dangling String [3], a 'plastic spaghetti string' that spins based on the information sent through the Ethernet cable, forming a visual and auditory display which subtly presents the network activity.…”

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Peripheral interaction: characteristics and considerations

Bakker

Hoven

Eggen

2014

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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In everyday life, we are able to perceive information and perform physical actions in the background or periphery of attention. Inspired by this observation, several researchers have studied interactive systems that display digital information in the periphery of attention. To broaden the scope of this research direction, a few recent studies have focused on interactive systems that can not only be perceived in the background but also enable users to physically interact with digital information in their periphery. Such peripheral interaction designs can support computing technology to fluently embed in and become a meaningful part of people's everyday routines. With the increasing ubiquity of technology in our everyday environment, we believe that this direction is highly relevant nowadays. This paper presents an in-depth analysis of three case studies on peripheral interaction. These case studies involved the design and development of peripheral interactive systems and deployment of these systems in the real context of use for a number of weeks. Based on the insights gained through these case studies, we discuss generalized characteristics and considerations for peripheral interaction design and evaluation. The aim of the work presented in this paper is to support interaction design researchers and practitioners in anticipating and facilitating peripheral interaction with the designs they are evaluating or developing.

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“…The characteristics and requirements of ambient displays also determine their application context. In their work on peripheral displays Matthews, Dey, Mankoff, Carter, & Rattenbury (2004) described the main ability to allow "a person to be aware of information while she is attending to some other primary task or activity." Focusing on the user attention towards a display the authors presented a toolkit for managing attention through display design.…”

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Lead me gently: Facilitating knowledge gain through attention-aware ambient learning displays

Börner¹,

Kalz²,

Specht³

2014

Computers & Education

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This empirical study reports an intervention to investigate identified research challenges on the evaluation and use of ambient displays in a learning context with the objective to gain insights into the interplay between display design, user attention, and knowledge acquisition. The main research questions were whether an attention-aware display design can capture the user's focus of attention and whether this has an influence on the knowledge gain. A display prototype corresponding to the main ambient display characteristics was designed, applied in a controlled authentic setting, and evaluated accordingly. The prototype presented information and guidelines for first responders in emergency situations, especially in cases of cardiac arrest. The prototype was enhanced with a custom-built sensor to measure user attention and trigger interruptive notifications. The study was conducted among 52 employees working at a university campus. Using an experimental research design, a treatment group exposed to an attentionaware display design was compared to a control group. The results provide evidence that such a display design can attract and retain attention in such a way that the acquisition of knowledge (i.e. the comprehension of the presented information) is effectively facilitated.

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A toolkit for managing user attention in peripheral displays

Cited by 154 publications

References 26 publications

Ambient Timer – Unobtrusively Reminding Users of Upcoming Tasks with Ambient Light

Ambient Timer – Unobtrusively Reminding Users of Upcoming Tasks with Ambient Light

Peripheral interaction: characteristics and considerations

Lead me gently: Facilitating knowledge gain through attention-aware ambient learning displays

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