With the increase of connected devices and online services, the number of notifications received by each person is growing. Although notifications are useful to inform users about important information such as new messages and events, the continuous interruptions, the notification duplication, and the rigid delivery can be sources of discomfort. To overcome these issues, we present AwareNotifications, an intelligent system based on user-defined preferences to manage multi-device notifications. AwareNotifications is powered by Semantic Web technologies. By directly exploiting user preferences in the semantic reasoning process, the system is able to identify suitable device(s), modality, and moment(s) to deliver the incoming user notifications. We evaluated AwareNotifications in a user study with 15 participants, in which we compared our system with the “traditional” notification delivery system. The study confirms the perceived effectiveness of AwareNotifications, and provides insights to further improve the system.

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AwareNotifications：具有用户定义首选项的多设备语义通知处理

随着连接设备和在线服务的增加，每个人收到的通知数量也在增长。尽管通知对于通知用户有关重要信息（例如新消息和事件）的有用信息，但连续的中断，通知重复和严格的传递可能会引起不适。为了克服这些问题，我们提出了AwareNotifications，这是一个基于用户定义的首选项来管理多设备通知的智能系统。AwareNotifications由语义Web技术提供支持。通过在语义推理过程中直接利用用户偏好，系统能够识别合适的设备，方式和时刻来传递传入的用户通知。我们在一项有15名参与者的用户研究中评估了AwareNotifications，在其中，我们将系统与“传统”通知传递系统进行了比较。该研究证实了AwareNotifications的感知有效性，并提供了进一步改进该系统的见解。