Ease of juggling: Studying the effects of manual multitasking

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3103-3112

  Oulasvirta, Antti ^a,b   Bergstrom Lehtovirta, Joanna ^a,b  

^a HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Human computer interaction; Interface design; Multi object manual performance; Multitasking; Usability

Indexed keywords

MULTITASKING;

CONDITION; EVALUATION; INTERFACE DESIGNS; MULTI-OBJECT MANUAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIOBJECT; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE:LEVEL; PHYSICAL OBJECTS; SENSORIMOTOR CONTROL; USABILITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 79958113800     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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