Academic literature on the topic 'Push notifications'

Push notifications are a core functionality of mobile apps and allow app publishers to interact with existing app users and send promotional content. Since every push notification can also interrupt or annoy app users, the frequency of push notifications is a critical success factor. This study investigates how different frequencies of push notifications affect the behavior of app users of mobile apps in retail. In an experiment with 17,500 app users, five different frequencies are tested over seven weeks, and the effects on real observed app user behavior are analyzed. The results show that as the frequency of the non-personalized push notifications increases, uninstalls increase, and the direct open rate of push notifications decreases. A significant influence on indirect opens cannot be proven. The results provide practitioners with important insights into the potential harm that a too high frequency of push notifications can cause. Furthermore, the results support the importance of relevant content tailored to the respective user.

Higher education is an educational institution within the national education system in all countries. Its position is not much different from primary or secondary education, which functions to develop the potential of students to grow and develop as normal members of society, but universities have a mission that goes beyond just providing graduates who are smart, reliable in their knowledge organization and able to apply in the world of work. . Higher education must be able to deliver students to understand themselves, determine their role in society and as human beings who are much better than before. Push notifications, a service that is widely used for notifications via short messages on smartphones. With the Push Notification service, users can be helped in terms of brief notifications. In its implementation, Push Notification can be used in various daily needs, for example to monitor attendance, update the latest news, and so on, by combining whatsapp and academic push notifications will result in a search for values very easily when using the WhatsApp application.

Establishing secret command and control (C&C) channels from attackers is important in malware design. This paper presents design and analysis of malware architecture exploiting push notification services as C&C channels. The key feature of the push notification-based malware design is remote triggering, which allows attackers to trigger and execute their malware by push notifications. The use of push notification services as covert channels makes it difficult to distinguish this type of malware from other normal applications also using the same services. We implemented a backdoor prototype on Android devices as a proof-of-concept of the push notification-based malware and evaluated its stealthiness and feasibility. Our malware implementation effectively evaded the existing malware analysis tools such as 55 antimalware scanners from VirusTotal and SandDroid. In addition, our backdoor implementation successfully cracked about 98% of all the tested unlock secrets (either PINs or unlock patterns) in 5 seconds with only a fraction (less than 0.01%) of the total power consumption of the device. Finally, we proposed several defense strategies to mitigate push notification-based malware by carefully analyzing its attack process. Our defense strategies include filtering subscription requests for push notifications from suspicious applications, providing centralized management and access control of registration tokens of applications, detecting malicious push messages by analyzing message contents and characteristic patterns demonstrated by malicious push messages, and detecting malware by analyzing the behaviors of applications after receiving push messages.

Smartphones are used ubiquitously worldwide and are essential tools in modern society. However, smartphone overuse is an emerging social issue, and limited studies have objectively assessed this matter. The majority of previous studies have included surveys or behavioral observation studies. Since a previous study demonstrated an association between increased push notifications and smartphone overuse, we investigated the effects of push notifications on task performance. We detected changes in brainwaves generated by smartphone push notifications using the N200 and P300 components of event-related potential (ERP) to investigate both concentration and cognitive ability. ERP assessment indicated that, in both risk and nonrisk groups, the lowest N200 amplitude and the longest latency during task performance were found when push notifications were delivered. Compared to the nonrisk group, the risk group demonstrated lower P300 amplitudes and longer latencies. In addition, the risk group featured a higher rate of error in the Go-Nogo task, due to the negative influence of smartphone push notifications on performance in both risk and nonrisk groups. Furthermore, push notifications affected subsequent performance in the risk group.

Background Drink Less is a behavior change app that aims to help users in the general adult population reduce hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption. The app includes a daily push notification, delivered at 11 am, asking users to “Please complete your mood and drinking diaries.” Previous analysis of Drink Less engagement data suggests the current notification strongly influences how users engage with the app in the subsequent hour. To exploit a potential increase of vulnerability of excess drinking and opportunity to engage with the app in the evenings, we changed the delivery time from 11 am to 8 pm. We now aim to further optimise the content and sequence of notifications, testing 30 new evidence-informed notifications targeting the user’s perceived usefulness of the app. Objective The primary objective is to assess whether sending a notification at 8 pm increases behavioral engagement (opening the app) in the subsequent hour. Secondary objectives include comparing the effect of the new bank of messages with the standard message and effect moderation over time. We also aim to more generally understand the role notifications have on the overall duration, depth, and frequency of engagement with Drink Less over the first 30 days after download. Methods This is a protocol for a micro-randomized trial with two additional parallel arms. Inclusion criteria are Drink Less users who (1) consent to participate in the trial; (2) self-report a baseline Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test score of 8 or above; (3) reside in the United Kingdom; (4) age ≥18 years and; (5) report interest in drinking less alcohol. In the micro-randomized trial, participants will be randomized daily at 8 pm to receive no notification, a notification with text from the new message bank, or the standard message. The primary outcome is the time-varying, binary outcome of “Did the user open the app in the hour from 8 pm to 9 pm?”. The primary analysis will estimate the marginal relative risk for the notifications using an estimator developed for micro-randomized trials with binary outcomes. Participants randomized to the parallel arms will receive no notifications (Secondary Arm A), or the standard notification delivered daily at 11 am (Secondary Arm B) over 30 days, allowing the comparison of overall engagement between different notification delivery strategies. Results Approval was granted by the University College of London’s Departmental Research Ethics Committee (CEHP/2016/556) on October 11, 2019, and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Interventions Research Ethics Committee (17929) on November 27, 2019. Recruitment began on January 2, 2020, and is ongoing. Conclusions Understanding how push notifications may impact engagement with a behavior change app can lead to further improvements in engagement, and ultimately help users reduce their alcohol consumption. This understanding may also be generalizable to other apps that target a variety of behavior changes. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) DERR1-10.2196/18690

<p class="0abstract">With the increasing relevance of mobile apps for companies, push notifications to address app users are also becoming more important. While the acceptance factors of push notifications have already been extensively researched, the effect of the different design elements on user interaction by opening the mobile app is still completely unexplored. Based on existing scientific findings from related fields, especially banner advertising and e-mail marketing, the authors first develop hypotheses on the effect of title, button and image on user interaction with push notifications. In several experiments the hypotheses are tested using the example of a mobile shopping app. The results are evaluated using Chi-square test and Cramer's V. While the use of a title seems to have a positive effect on interaction rates, the hypotheses on the positive effect of buttons and images on interaction rates have to be rejected.</p>

<p class="Abstrak">Teknologi terus menerus berkembang, berbagai jenis teknologi terus bermunculan seperti sistem informasi manajemen arsip, masalahnya para pekerja kadang melakukan pekerjaan lain di komputer sehingga arsip tidak terkontrol. Penerapan <em>Web Push Notification</em> dapat menampilkan pemberitahuan berbasis <em>website</em> meskipun tidak membuka <em>web browser</em> secara langsung atau dalam kondisi <em>minimize</em>. <em>Web Push Notification</em> merupakan mekanisme pemberitahuan menggunakan <em>Javascript</em> pada <em>web browser</em>. Fitur ini tersedia dalam <em>Push API HTML5</em> dengan menggunakan <em>Push Service</em> atau <em>Messaging server</em> yang mengirim pemberitahuan ke <em>web browser</em> yang telah berlangganan tanpa membuka <em>website</em> sehingga dapat melakukan <em>broadcast message</em> dan <em>Notification API HTML5</em> tidak memerlukan <em>Push Service</em> atau <em>Messaging server</em> tetapi harus membuka <em>website</em>, tetapi belum didukung semua <em>web browser</em> sehingga pada makalah ini dibahas Implementasi <em>Web Push Notification</em> pada sistem informasi manajemen arsip menggunakan <em>PushJS</em>, metode pengembangan yang digunakan adalah <em>Rational Unified Proccess (RUP)</em>. Teknologi pemberitahuan yang cocok untuk sistem informasi manajemen arsip berbasis <em>web</em> yaitu <em>Notification API HTML5</em> karena tidak akan mengirim pemberitahuan yang sama ke semua pengguna. Namun tidak ada proses di belakang layar sehingga tidak akan dijalankan secara otomatis, masalah tersebut diatasi dengan menggunakan <em>AJAX</em> dengan mengambil <em>JSON</em> kemudian dijalankan berulang-ulang pada <em>web browser</em> dan meminimalisir bentrokan antara <em>script web push notification</em> di <em>multi tab window</em> atau <em>window web browser</em> diatasi menggunakan <em>localStorage</em> dari <em>WebStorage API HTML5</em>. Hasil uji menunjukan bahwa penerapan teknologi <em>Web Push Notification</em> pada Sistem Informasi Manajemen Arsip dapat membantu para pengguna dalam mengelola arsip yang banyak serta penggunaan <em>AJAX</em> berpengaruh terhadap kecepatan akses web.</p><p class="Abstrak"> </p><p class="Abstrak"><em><strong>Abstract</strong></em></p><p class="Judul2"><em>Technology continues to evolve, various types of technology continue to emerge such as records management information systems, the problem is that workers sometimes do other work on the computer so that the archive is not controlled. Web Push Notification application can display website-based notifications even if you don't open the web browser directly or in a minimized condition. Web Push Notification is a notification mechanism using Javascript in a web browser. This feature is available in the HTML5 Push API by using a Push Service or Messaging server that sends notifications to subscribed web browsers without opening the website so that it can broadcast and the HTML5 Notification API does not require a Push Service or Messaging server but must open a website, but not supported all web browsers so that this paper discusses Push Notification Web Implementation in archive management information systems using PushJS, the development method used is the Rational Unified Process (RUP). Notification technology that is suitable for web-based archive management information systems namely HTML5 Notification API because it will not send the same notification to all users. But there is no process behind the scenes so that it will not be run automatically, the problem is overcome by using AJAX by retrieving JSON and then running repeatedly on the web browser and minimizing clashes between web push notification scripts on multi tab windows or web browser windows resolved using localStorage from the HTML5 WebStorage API. The test results show that the application of Web Push Notification technology in the Archive Management Information System can help users manage many archives and use AJAX influences the speed of web access.</em></p><p class="Abstrak"><em><strong><br /></strong></em></p>