No task left behind? Examining the nature of fragmented work

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 321-330

  Mark, Gloria ^a   Gonzalez, Victor M ^a   Harris, Justin ^a  

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention management; Empirical study; Information overload; Interruptions; Multi tasking

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ATTENTION MANAGEMENT; EMPIRICAOL STUDY; INFORMATION OVERLOAD; INTERRUPTIONS;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 84861291441     PISSN: 02749696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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