Why do i keep interrupting myself?: Environment, habit and self-interruption

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3127-3130

  Dabbish, Laura ^a   Mark, Gloria ^b   González, Víctor M ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Interruption; Multitasking; Self interruption; Task switching

Indexed keywords

HIGH-TECHNOLOGY; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; INFORMATION-CENTRIC; INTERRUPTION; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; ORGANISATIONAL; SELF-INTERRUPTION; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; TASK SWITCHING; WORK ORGANIZATION;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 79958171115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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