Batching smartphone notifications can improve well-being
作者:
Highlights:
• We modified smartphone users' default notification systems.
• We assigned people to control or 3 distinct schedules of batching notifications.
• Batching alerts hourly produced little change compared to control (use as usual).
• Batching notifications 3 times a day reduced stress and increased well-being.
• Completely switching off alerts produced, instead, more anxiety and FoMO.
摘要
•We modified smartphone users' default notification systems.•We assigned people to control or 3 distinct schedules of batching notifications.•Batching alerts hourly produced little change compared to control (use as usual).•Batching notifications 3 times a day reduced stress and increased well-being.•Completely switching off alerts produced, instead, more anxiety and FoMO.
论文关键词:Batching notifications,Attention,Well-being,Stress,Randomized controlled trial
论文评审过程:Received 5 January 2019, Revised 28 June 2019, Accepted 15 July 2019, Available online 16 July 2019, Version of Record 19 July 2019.
论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.07.016