Unpacking the social dimension of external interruptions

GROUP'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 399-408

  Harr, Rikard ^a   Kaptelinin, Victor ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Communication; Interpersonal relation; Interruptee; Interrupter; Interruptions; Location; Social context

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERRUPTEE; KEY ISSUES; RIPPLE EFFECTS; SOCIAL CONTEXT; SOCIAL DIMENSIONS;

GROUPWARE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 67650027384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1316624.1316686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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