Back to the app: The costs of mobile application interruptions

MobileHCI'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 291-294

  Leiva, Luis A ^a   B̈ohmer, Matthias ^b   Gehring, Sven ^b   Kr̈uger, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Application switching; Interruptions; Large scale study; Resumption lags; Task deferral; Task interleaving

Indexed keywords

INTERRUPTIONS; LARGE-SCALE STUDY; RESUMPTION LAGS; TASK DEFERRAL; TASK INTERLEAVING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 84867705565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2371574.2371617     Document Type: Conference Paper

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