Chronic multitaskers perform worse on core multitasking skills: memory management,
cognitive filtering and task switching, likely due to their inability to filter irrelevant stimuli [17] …

With the constant barrage of cell phone calls, emails, instant messages, calendar reminders,
and more, interruptions have become a common and consistent occurrence in our daily …

In this study, we propose a user-interruptibility estimation method based on focused
application switching (AS) during PC work. It was experimentally demonstrated that the …

Pauses in typing are generally considered to indicate cognitive processing and so are of
interest in educational contexts. While much prior work has looked at typing behavior of …

Human attention has bottlenecked today's ubiquitous computing environment where users
are consuming increasing amounts of information from numerous applications and services …

This paper studies information exchange in collaborative group activities involving mixed
networks of people and computer agents. It introduces the concept of “nearly …

Controlling the rate of bulk data multicast to a large number of receivers is difficult due to the
heterogeneity among the end-systems' capabilities and their available network bandwidth. If …

As robots become increasingly prevalent in human environments, there will inevitably be
times when the robot needs to interrupt a human to initiate an interaction. Our work …

Objective The study aims to examine the effects of interruptions in major phases (ie, problem-
identification, alternative-development, and evaluation-and-selection) of complex decision …

Frequent and uncontrolled interruptions by information systems that do not reflect the user's
state can result in fragmented working times and decreased intellectual productivity. To …