Provoking and maintaining user attention for urgent messages by actively monitoring user activity and biometrics

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the user device to:

• monitor user behavior and user biometrics indicating a user's attention level;
• receive a message that triggers an attention provoking action on the user device;
• execute attention provoking instructions based on the receiving the message that triggers the attention provoking action;
• and
• maintain execution of the attention provoking instructions until the computing device detects, based on the monitoring the user behavior and the user biometrics, that the user's attention level has satisfied a threshold for a threshold period of time.

A system comprising:

• a processor, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage medium associated with a user device;
• program instructions to monitor user behavior and user biometrics,
• program instructions to provide a message to a user of the user device;
• program instructions to determine that an urgency level of the message exceeds a threshold;
• program instructions to execute attention provoking instructions based on the detecting that the urgency level exceeds the threshold;
• program instructions to detect that attention provoking criteria has been satisfied based on the monitoring the user behavior and the user biometrics;
• and
• program instructions to discontinue the executing the attention provoking instructions based on the detecting that the attention provoking criteria has been satisfied,
• wherein the program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the processor via the computer readable memory.