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Bastian Pfleging, Albrecht Schmidt, Niels Henze
Supporting Notifications and User Guidance through Subtle Cues
Workshop on Peripheral Interaction: Shaping the Research and Design Space at CHI'14, 2014. (bib)

In this paper, we present our idea of supporting user guidance (e.g., for unfamiliar user interfaces) and user notification (e.g., informing about incoming messages or an upcoming appointment) using subtle information cues. The idea is to provide usable hints to users without actively distracting them. While various subtle information concepts like subliminal communication and subtle gaze direction have already been studied, previous research partly reports conflicting results about the effectiveness of such systems or is limited to certain application domains. Therefore, we aim at exploring and extending the design space between subliminal, subtle / ambient, and clearly visible cues and want to investigate how such cues can be integrated into everyday user interfaces to form a type of peripheral communication.