Please do not disturb: Managing interruptions and task complexity

PACIS 2011 - 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Quality Research in Pacific

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Tan, Mark Khai Shean ^a   Richardson, Alex ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Decision accuracy; Interruptions; Task complexity

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TASK; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; DECISION ACCURACY; DELAYED RESPONSE; EMAIL MESSAGES; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; INSTANT MESSAGES; INSTANT MESSAGING; INTERRUPTIONS; KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING ENVIRONMENTS; PROBLEM-SOLVING PERFORMANCE; TASK COMPLEXITY; VISUAL CUES;

COMMUNICATION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84855860375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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