Investigating the effectiveness of mental workload as a predictor of opportune moments for interruption

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1489-1492

  Iqbal, Shamsi T ^a   Bailey, Brian P ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Interruption; Mental Workload; Task Models

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; INTERRUPTION; MENTAL WORKLOAD; PRIMARY TASK; RANDOM MOMENTS; SYSTEMATIC METHOD; TASK MODELS;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84869110728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1056948     Document Type: Conference Paper

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