Matching attentional draw with utility in interruption

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 41-50

  Gluck, Jennifer ^a   Bunt, Andrea ^a   McGrenere, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Annoyance; Attention; Benefit; Detection; Interruption; Mental workload; Utility

Indexed keywords

PATTERN MATCHING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

INTERRUPTION UTILITY; INTERRUPTION'S NOTIFICATION METHOD;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 35348928833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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