The effects of positive and negative self-interruptions in discretionary multitasking

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2012-January, Issue , 2012, Pages 1763-1768

  Adler, Rachel F ^a   Benbunan Fich, Raquel ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

interruptions; multitasking; performance; self interruptions

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

DETAILED CLASSIFICATION; INTERRUPTION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PERFORMANCE; POSITIVE FEELINGS; SELF-INTERRUPTION;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 84991064467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2212776.2223706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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