Evaluating cues for resuming interrupted programming tasks

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 93-102

  Parnin, Chris ^a   DeLine, Robert ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

cues; interruptions; task resumption

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL INQUIRY; KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; NOTE-TAKING; PROGRAMMING TASKS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77954020610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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