What makes interruptions disruptive? A process-model account of the effects of the problem state bottleneck on task interruption and resumption

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-April, Issue , 2015, Pages 2971-2980

  Borst, Jelmer P ^a   Taatgen, Niels A ^a   Van Rijn, Hedderik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational model; Interruptions; Multitasking; Problem state; Working memory

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MULTITASKING;

COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; INTERRUPTION DURATIONS; INTERRUPTIONS; PROBLEM STATE; PROCESS MODELING; TASK COMPLEXITY; WORKING MEMORY;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 84951188462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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