Mental workload in multi-device personal information management

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3431-3436

  Tungare, Manas ^a   Pérez Quiñones, Manuel A ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental workload; Multiple devices; Personal information management

Indexed keywords

CELL PHONE; DESKTOP COMPUTER; KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; MENTAL WORKLOAD; MULTIPLE DEVICES; PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SUBTASKS; TASK DIFFICULTY; TASK MIGRATION; USER EXPERIENCE;

ABSTRACTING; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL MEMBRANES; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERMODULATION; INTERMODULATION MEASUREMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70349171562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1520340.1520498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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