Symbiotic attention management in the context of internet of things.

In this position paper we stress the need for considering the nature of human attention when designing future potentially interruptive IoT and propose to let IoT devices share attention-related data and collaborate on the task of drawing human attention in order to achieve higher quality attention management with less overall system resources. Finally, we categorize some existing strategies for drawing people's attention according to a simple symbiotic (human-machine) attention management framework.