A framework for specifying and monitoring user tasks

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 709-732

  Bailey, Brian P ^a,b   Adamczyk, Piotr D ^a,b,c   Chang, Tony Y ^a,b   Chilson, Neil A ^a,d  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b ACM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Interruption; Task models; Task monitoring

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; INTERRUPTION; TASK MODELS; TASK MONITORING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MONITORING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 33144489203     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2005.12.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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