Notification Timing Control to Reduce Successive Alert Nuisance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing notification methods on terminal apparatuses, such as vibrations and sounds, can become nuisances when multiple notifications are received successively, leading to user annoyance and degraded usability.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a control mechanism that determines whether to execute notification operations based on the elapsed time since the last notification, ensuring that operations like display and vibration are only performed if a predetermined time period has passed since the previous notification, thereby reducing the likelihood of successive notifications becoming a nuisance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If notification operations (sound, vibration, display) are executed for every received information, then users are informed of all notifications, but successive notifications become nuisances and degrade user experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic action by introducing a time threshold mechanism that controls notification delivery. The system checks whether a predetermined time period has elapsed since the last notification before executing new notification operations. This periodic filtering approach ensures users receive important notifications while avoiding excessive successive notifications that would become nuisances, thus resolving the contradiction between reliable notification delivery and preventing user annoyance.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If notification operations are restricted based on time intervals, then successive notifications become less annoying, but users may miss timely information about recent events
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by dynamically adjusting the time threshold parameter based on notification characteristics and user context. The system can modify the time interval parameter adaptively to balance between reducing notification nuisance and preserving timely information delivery. By making the time parameter flexible rather than fixed, the system resolves the contradiction between minimizing successive notifications and maintaining information timeliness.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the terminal apparatus continuously monitors and controls notification operations, then notification nuisance is reduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by enabling the notification control mechanism to automatically manage itself without requiring complex external intervention. The system autonomously tracks the time of last notification, evaluates whether the time threshold is met, and decides whether to execute notification operations independently. This self-managing approach reduces the need for complex user configuration or external control systems, thereby resolving the contradiction between effective notification control and device complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A storage medium stores a program for causing a computer of an information processing apparatus to execute operations. The operations include first acquiring for acquiring first information for executing notification operations, second acquiring for acquiring second information for executing the notification operations, the second information being different from the first information, and performing control not to execute at least one of a plurality of operations included in the notification operations based on the second information, upon acquisition of the second information before a predetermined time period has elapsed since the acquisition of the first information in the second acquisition executed after the first acquisition.