A Framework of Interruptions in Distributed Team Environments

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 1282-1286

  Rukab, Jamie A ^a   Johnson Throop, Kathy A ^a,b   Malin, Jane ^b   Zhang, Jiajie ^a  

^a University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

activity theory; case study; distributed cognition; distributed information system; ethnographic study; Interruption; team

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SPACE PLATFORMS;

ACTIVITY THEORY; CASE-STUDIES; CODING SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; INTERRUPTION; TEAM; TEAM PERFORMANCE;

NASA;

COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LANGUAGE; THEORETICAL STUDY; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; GROUP PROCESS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; SPACE FLIGHT; UNITED STATES; WORK; WORKPLACE;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; SPACE FLIGHT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION; WORK; WORKPLACE;

EID: 13444253317     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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