Does the difficulty of an interruption affect our ability to resume?

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 234-238

  Cades, David M ^a   Davis, Deborah A Boehm ^a   Trafton, J Gregory ^b   Monk, Christopher A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISRUPTIVE EFFECTS; PRIMARY TASKS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 58149465210     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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