Smart Notification Timing via User Status Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic devices often notify users of new information at inappropriate times, disrupting the user experience and potentially causing disturbances, especially when the user is in meetings, sleeping, or in noisy environments.
Innovation Solution
The method involves acquiring a user's status to determine convenience for notifications, postponing alerts when it's inconvenient and delivering them when the user is in a suitable state to check information, using factors like schedule, physiological condition, location, and distance from the device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If instant notification is implemented, then information delivery speed is improved, but user disturbance increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by acquiring user status information (schedule, physiological condition, location) before delivering notifications. This allows the system to predict appropriate notification times in advance, avoiding immediate notification that would cause disturbance while still ensuring timely information delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring user status and using this information to adjust notification timing. The notification delivery is based on feedback from user status data, creating a closed-loop system that adapts to user conditions and minimizes disturbance while maintaining information delivery effectiveness.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If notification timing is delayed to avoid disturbance, then user disturbance is reduced, but information delivery timeliness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary acquisition of user status information and determines optimal notification timing in advance. By preparing notification schedules based on predicted user availability, the system avoids both immediate disturbance and excessive delays, delivering information at the earliest appropriate moment.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification timing is made dynamic rather than static. The system continuously adjusts notification schedules based on real-time user status changes, allowing flexible timing that adapts to user conditions. This dynamic approach ensures notifications are delivered as soon as user conditions permit, minimizing delay while avoiding disturbance.
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes acquiring information and acquiring a user status of a target user. In response to the user status indicating it is inconvenient for the target user to check the information, execution of a notification command that prompts the target user of acquisition of the information is postponed. In response to the user status indicating it is convenient for the target user to check the information, the notification command is executed.