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Resumption lag at interruptible timing might not be short in actual environment

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Takahiro Tanaka,

Niels Taatgen,

Kazuaki Aoki, and

Kinya FujitaAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '14: CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2014

Pages 1801 - 1806

https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581207

Published: 26 April 2014 Publication History

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Experiments performed in controlled environments have revealed that interruptions occurring at application switching (AS), which correspond to task breakpoints in the computer field, are more subjectively acceptable and require shorter resumption lags (RL), which indicate the cognitive cost. Therefore, in this study, we investigate RLs in uncontrolled office environment. The interruptions at more acceptable ASs were expected to show shorter RLs, because the cognitive costs of the interruption are less. However, contrary to the expected result, the RLs were longer. This implies that factors other than cognitive cost may affect interruptibility in a realistic environment.

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CHI EA '14: CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2014

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DOI:10.1145/2559206

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Prajapati SYamada KUnehara MSuzuki I(2017)Productivity Enhancing Interruption-Information Management Chat InterfaceJournal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics10.20965/jaciii.2017.p045621:3(456-466)Online publication date: 19-May-2017
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Prajapati SYamada KUnehara MSuzuki I(2016)Interruption-Information Management Framework for Chat Interface2016 Joint 8th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems (SCIS) and 17th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (ISIS)10.1109/SCIS-ISIS.2016.0137(631-636)Online publication date: Aug-2016
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