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 …

Virtual meetings are critical for remote work because of the need for synchronous
collaboration in the absence of in-person interactions. In-meeting multitasking is closely …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Notifications can have reduced interruption cost if delivered at moments of lower mental
workload during task execution. Cognitive theorists have speculated that these moments …

We investigate whether opportune moments to deliver notifications surface at the endings of
episodes of mobile interaction (making voice calls or receiving SMS) based on the …

Demanding work settings often require the deferral of intended actions. In 3 experiments,
participants were to withhold a response until they encountered a task change (which …