Leveraging characteristics of task structure to predict the cost of interruption

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 741-750

  Iqbal, Shamsi T ^a   Bailey, Brian P ^a  

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

Author keywords

Attention; Interruption; Learning; Task Models; Workload

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; USER INTERFACES;

ATTENTION; INTERRUPTION; LEARNING; TASK MODELS; WORKLOAD;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 33745841194     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1124772.1124882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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