Choice in multitasking: How delays in the primary task turn a rational into an irrational multitasker

Human Factors

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 728-736

  Katidioti, Ioanna ^a   Taatgen, Niels A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

attention; delay; human computer interaction; interruption; multitasking; workload

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MULTITASKING; SWITCHING;

ATTENTION; COGNITIVE RESOURCES; DELAY; INTERRUPTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; THREADED COGNITIONS; WORKLOAD;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900548243     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720813504216     Document Type: Article

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