Objective To understand the complex effects of interruption in healthcare. Materials and
methods As interruptions have been well studied in other domains, the authors undertook a …

Human perceptual and cognitive abilities are limited resources. Attention is the mechanism
used to allocate such resources in the most effective way. Current technologies, in addition …

Personal social media usage is pervasive in both personal and professional lives.
Practitioner articles and news stories have commented on the addicting and distracting …

Notifications are extremely beneficial to users, but they often demand their attention at
inappropriate moments. In this paper we present an in-situ study of mobile interruptibility …

We performed an empirical study to investigate whether the context of interruptions makes a
difference. We found that context does not make a difference but surprisingly, people …

This paper reports results from a controlled experiment (N= 50) measuring effects of
interruption on task completion time, error rate, annoyance, and anxiety. The experiment …

User attention is a scarce resource, and users are susceptible to interruption overload.
Systems do not reason about the effects of interrupting a user during a task sequence. In this …

At first glance it seems absurd that busy people doing important jobs should want their
computers to interrupt them. Interruptions are disruptive and people need to concentrate to …

Interruptions are a frequent occurrence in the work life of most decision makers. This paper
investigated the influence of interruptions on different types of decision‐making tasks and …

This study measured arousal responses to multitasking by recording switches between
content on personal computers over a day. Results showed that switches occurred every 19 …