The effect of online interruptions on the quality of cognitive performance

Telematics and Informatics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1014-1021

  Levy, Eilat Chen ^a   Rafaeli, Sheizaf ^a   Ariel, Yaron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Yezreel Valley College   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognition; Computer mediated communication; Experiments; Interruption; Media Richness

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; EXPERIMENTS; MOBILE DEVICES; TELEPHONE SETS;

COGNITION; COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; INTERRUPTION; MEDIA RICHNESS; MEDIA RICHNESS THEORY;

MOBILE PHONES;

EID: 84962019732     PISSN: 07365853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2016.03.003     Document Type: Article

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