Examining the design space of insect inspired notifications
Diana Löffler, Takashi TORIIZUKA, Yuki Sakakibara, Philipp Schäper, Jörn Hurtienne · 2015
Our work investigates new designs for notification cues, leveraging knowledge about insects that people gained through lifelong experiences. We conducted a user study to identify people's knowledge about nine typical and easily differentiated insect-species. We conclude that this information can be used in creating notifications that can be perceived intuitively. We discuss how results of this study can inform design decisions in all four design dimensions of notification systems, and consider the future potential of notifications based on such biomimicry patterns.