Neurotics can't focus: An in situ study of online multitasking in the workplace

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1739-1744

  Mark, Gloria ^a   Iqbal, Shamsi T ^b   Czerwinski, Mary ^b   Johns, Paul ^b   Sano, Akane ^c  

^a 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Focus; Information work; Multitasking; Personality; Productivity; Sleep; Stress

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PRODUCTIVITY; SLEEP RESEARCH; STRESSES;

EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS; EXTERNAL INFLUENCES; INDIVIDUAL FACTORS; INFORMATION WORK; INFORMATION WORKERS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TRAITS; SLEEP;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 85015036334     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2858036.2858202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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