Being interrupted by instant messaging: Does it matter who is interrupting - the boss or the coworker?

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages 3641-3647

  Gupta, Ashish ^a   Li, Han ^b  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instant messaging; Interruption; Perceived task complexity; Perceived workload; Task performance

Indexed keywords

INSTANT MESSAGING; INTERRUPTION; PERCEIVED WORKLOAD; TASK COMPLEXITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MESSAGE PASSING; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 84870262667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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