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|Abstract=This article analyzes a class of interactional devices that share the property of being “designed-to-occur” (e.g., alerts, alarms, warnings, calls, summons) and that can be more generally categorized as “notifications.” This class of devices is directly related to interruptions and to attention-management issues, and is crucial to the unfolding of communication events. In reviewing the last thirty years of human-computer interaction research on this topic, this article highlights the transformation of the meaning of interruptions and notification devices. Initially perceived as disruptions in the accomplishment of tasks, interruptions have gradually acquired a positive value as “notification” devices and are meant to be subtler and to embed some degree of “intelligence” of the recipient’s context. The article provides two empirical case studies on the uses of mobile musical ringtone and of instant messaging in organizations, showing the kind of work that users actually do to pattern their environments with an orientation toward shaping in advance the way in which they might be interrupted and notified. Concerned with how they might be notified, the users are becoming more skilled and turning into “pragmatic amateurs,” less inclined to accept the imposition of a summons (which also testifies to a kind of “crisis of the summons”), and with a keener sense for appreciating the working and pragmatic consequences of a given type of notification.
the property of being “designed-to-occur” (e.g., alerts, alarms,
 
warnings, calls, summons) and that can be more generally cate-
 
gorized as “notifications.” This class of devices is directly related to
 
interruptions and to attention-management issues, and is crucial
 
to the unfolding of communication events. In reviewing the last
 
thirty years of human-computer interaction research on this topic,
 
this article highlights the transformation of the meaning of inter-
 
ruptions and notification devices. Initially perceived as disruptions
 
in the accomplishment of tasks, interruptions have gradually ac-
 
quired a positive value as “notification” devices and are meant to
 
be subtler and to embed some degree of “intelligence” of the re-
 
cipient’s context. The article provides two empirical case studies
 
on the uses of mobile musical ringtone and of instant messaging in
 
organizations, showing the kind of work that users actually do to
 
pattern their environments with an orientation toward shaping in
 
advance the way in which they might be interrupted and notified.
 
Concerned with how theymight be notified, the users are becoming
 
more skilled and turning into “pragmatic amateurs,” less inclined
 
to accept the imposition of a summons (which also testifies to a kind
 
of “crisis of the summons”), and with a keener sense for appreci-
 
ating the working and pragmatic consequences of a given type of
 
notification.
 
 
}}
 
}}

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Licoppe2010
BibType ARTICLE
Key Licoppe2010
Author(s) Christian Licoppe
Title The “crisis of summons”: A transformation in the pragmatics of “notifications,” from phone rings to instant messaging
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Tag(s) EMCA, attention, awareness, instantmessaging, interruption, mobile phone, notification, ring
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Year 2010
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Journal The Information Society
Volume 26
Number 4
Pages 288–302
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DOI 10.1080/01972243.2010.489859
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Abstract

This article analyzes a class of interactional devices that share the property of being “designed-to-occur” (e.g., alerts, alarms, warnings, calls, summons) and that can be more generally categorized as “notifications.” This class of devices is directly related to interruptions and to attention-management issues, and is crucial to the unfolding of communication events. In reviewing the last thirty years of human-computer interaction research on this topic, this article highlights the transformation of the meaning of interruptions and notification devices. Initially perceived as disruptions in the accomplishment of tasks, interruptions have gradually acquired a positive value as “notification” devices and are meant to be subtler and to embed some degree of “intelligence” of the recipient’s context. The article provides two empirical case studies on the uses of mobile musical ringtone and of instant messaging in organizations, showing the kind of work that users actually do to pattern their environments with an orientation toward shaping in advance the way in which they might be interrupted and notified. Concerned with how they might be notified, the users are becoming more skilled and turning into “pragmatic amateurs,” less inclined to accept the imposition of a summons (which also testifies to a kind of “crisis of the summons”), and with a keener sense for appreciating the working and pragmatic consequences of a given type of notification.

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