Providing SMS Notification with Less Interruption

Abstract

SMS communication is gaining increasing popularity in people’s daily life. Along with the growing number of times people sending and receiving SMSs every day, there are also increasing unwanted interruption to people when they are busy with their work or feel less receptive to unimportant messages. Unfortunately, current SMS systems are unable to present notifications according to user’s states and willingness of being interrupted. In this work, we develop a SMS system that intelligently determines a good way to present notifications to the user at a suitable time. A decision module is made to analyze the message content, the relation between the sender and the user, and the user state when a new message comes. The results of the decision module are used to implement a nicer notification and to reduce interruptions to a user’s ongoing tasks.