Predicting user attentiveness to electronic notifications

An apparatus comprising:

• one or more memories comprising computer-readable code and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors are configured, in response to execution of the computer-readable code, to cause the apparatus to perform actions comprising:
• in response to a processor determining there is a notification for a user, accessing by the processor a tangibly stored database to determine a time at which to provide the notification to the user, wherein the database comprises historical information of previous times at which the user attended to previous notifications and the database is accessed utilizing at least:
• current activity status of the user as determined from measurement information collected from one or more personal devices and/or from a calendar listing events scheduled for the user;
• current time and day;
• and
• context infoiiaation about the notification different from the measurement information and from the current time and day, said context information including at least type of the notification;
• causing a portable device to provide the notification to the user at the determined time;
• and
• using measurements from the portable device, determining the user's response to the notification that was provided at the determined time, said determined user's response selected from among at least attended, deferred, and ignored;
• updating the database with information about the determined user's response including at least activity status of the user at the time of the determined response as determined from measurement information collected from one the or more personal devices including the portable device and further accessing physiological status of the user as determined from measurement information collected from the one or more personal devices including the portable device;
• wherein an attended user's response is based on a movement within a first specified time after the notification, a deferred user's response is based on a user interaction within a second specified time, or an ignored user's response is based on a lack of response;
• wherein the database is accessed to determine the time at which to provide the notification to the user further utilizing analysis of notification content information that reflects content of the historical information in conjunction with analysis of text from previous user responses to determine content of the notification including machine-based analytics of mood and/or tone of said content.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a computing system to cause the computing system to perform:

• in response to a processor determining there is a notification for a user, accessing by a processor a tangibly stored database to determine a time at which to provide the notification to the user, wherein the database comprises historical information of previous times at which the user attended to previous notifications and the database is accessed utilizing at least:
• current activity status of the user as determined from measurement information collected from one or more personal devices and/or from a calendar listing events scheduled for the user;
• current time and day;
• and
• context information about the notification different from the measurement information and from the current time and day, said context information including at least type of the notification;
• causing a portable device to provide the notification to the user at the determined time;
• and
• using measurements from the portable device, determining the user's response to the notification that was provided at the determined time, said determined user's response selected from among at least attended, deferred, and ignored;
• updating the database with information about the determined user's response including at least activity status of the user at the time of the determined response as determined from measurement information collected from the one or more personal devices including the portable device and further accessing physiological status of the user as determined from measurement information collected from the one or more personal devices including the portable device;
• wherein an attended user's response is based on a movement within a first specified time after the notification, a deferred user's response is based on a user interaction within a second specified time, or an ignored user's response is based on a lack of response;
• wherein the database is accessed to determine the time at which to provide the notification to the user further utilizing analysis of notification content information that reflects content of the historical information in conjunction with analysis of text from previous user responses to determine content of the notification including machine-based analytics of mood and/or tone of said content.