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 …

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 …

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 …

An increasing number of notifications demanding the smartphone user's attention, often
arrive at an inappropriate moment, or carry irrelevant content. In this paper we present a …

In this review article, we address issues related to using data from anesthesia information
management systems (AIMS) to deliver near real-time alerts via AIMS workstation popups …

We describe a study on the influence of instant messaging (IM) on ongoing computing tasks.
The study both replicates and extends earlier work on the cost of sending notifications at …

When an automating application needs a user's input or has feedback or other information
for that user, it typically engages the user immediately, interrupting the user's current task. To …

The potential for sensor-enabled mobile devices to proactively present information when
and where users need it ranks among the greatest promises of ubiquitous computing …

We review both the theoretical and applied research on task interruptions. We provide a
brief task analysis of interruptions and resumptions, discuss how and why they are …

Many CSCW projects dealing with individual availability and interruption filtering achieve
only limited success. Perhaps this is because designers of such systems have limited …