Work interruptions are ubiquitous in today's workplaces as a result of the proliferation of
technology and a growing emphasis on collaboration and open workspaces. Although a …

Forming connections between human performance and design, this new edition of
Engineering Psychology and Human Performance examines human–machine interaction …

We discuss two general concepts of attention:(1) As a filter of selective attention that selects
and admits channels of information from the environment to be processed;(2) as a resource …

Applied Attention Theory, Second Edition provides details concerning the relevance of all
aspects of attention to the world beyond the laboratory. Topic application areas include the …

Interruptions have become ubiquitous in both our personal and professional lives.
Accordingly, research on interruptions has also increased steadily over time, and research …

Multitasking is all around us: the office worker interrupted by a phone call, the teenager
texting while driving, the salesperson chatting while entering an order. When multitasking …

Interruption of work by e-mail and other communication technologies has become
widespread and ubiquitous. However, our understanding of how such interruptions …

W eb 2.0 technology not only offers the opportunity of massively parallel interconnected
networks that support the provision of information and communication anytime and …

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 …

Interruptions are frequent in many work domains. Researchers in health care have started to
study interruptions extensively, but their studies usually do not use a theoretically guided …