The importance of "who" and "what" in interruption management: Empirical evidence from a cell phone use study

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 2334-2342

  Grandhi, Sukeshini A ^a   Laws, Nate ^a   Amento, Brian ^b   Jones, Quentin ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Communication; Design; Interruptibility; Interruption; Management; Mobile; Phones

Indexed keywords

CALL HANDLING; CELL PHONE; COMMUNICATION MEDIA; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD; IN-INTERRUPTION; INTERRUPTIBILITY; INTERRUPTION; INTERRUPTION MANAGEMENT; MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; MENTAL WORK; MOBILE; PHONES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AVAILABILITY; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; COMMUNICATION; DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

MOBILE PHONES;

EID: 84870327838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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