Batching smartphone notifications can improve well-being

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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