Biases in human estimation of interruptibility: Effects and implications for practice

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 51-60

  Avrahami, Daniel ^a   Fogarty, James ^b   Hudson, Scott E ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Awareness; Computer mediated communication; Context aware computing; Interruptibility; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CONTEXT-AWARE COMPUTING; INTERRUPTIBILITY;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 35348900277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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