Peer-Awareness to Support Learning: An In-the-wild Study on Notification Timing

Yuichiro Iwashita, Ryuki Kurashige, Andrew Vargo, Benjamin Tag, Tilman Dingler, Motoi Iwata, Koichi Kise

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Abstract

Researchers have proposed various approaches to increase motivation for learning. However, in many cases, they are designed to boost motivation but fall short of creating learning habits. Gamification and competition between peers are widely used to urge people to, for example, do more steps in a day. E-learning platforms often use leaderboards to visualize peer progress, but their effectiveness is limited to when users open the platform. In this work, we use notifications to inform peers of each other's progress in real-time to increase motivation for learning. In an in-the-wild study with 19 participants, we investigate the impact of peer-awareness on learning by comparing real-time notifications (sent immediately after peers' progress) with interval-based notifications (sent at random intervals). Contrary to our initial expectations, our findings reveal that interval-based notifications are more effective in promoting learning activities. We introduce the Peer-Aware Learning System (PALS), a mobile application designed to simulate peer effects and provide insights from our user study on notification timing strategies for enhancing learning motivation.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUbiComp '24
Subtitle of host publicationCompanion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Place of PublicationNew York, NY
PublisherACM
Pages14-18
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)979-8-4007-1058-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event2024 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 5 Oct 20249 Oct 2024
https://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp-iswc-2024/conference-program/

Conference

Conference2024 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Abbreviated titleUbiComp Companion 2024
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period5/10/249/10/24
Internet address

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care
Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

  • mobile
  • notifications
  • nudge
  • peer effects
  • peer pressure

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