Although traditional views of workplace stress assume that all job demands have deleterious
consequences, research indicates that some job demands may benefit employees. Notably …

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 …

We investigated the effect of short interruptions on performance of a task that required
participants to maintain their place in a sequence of steps each with their own performance …

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 …

Current work, play, and learning environments require multitasking activities from children,
adolescents and adults. Advances in web-enabled and multi-function devices have created …

The time to resume task goals after an interruption varied depending on the duration and
cognitive demand of interruptions, as predicted by the memory for goals model (Altmann & …

Multitasking in user behavior can be represented along a continuum in terms of the time
spent on one task before switching to another. In this paper, we present a theory of behavior …

We present ACT-R/E (Adaptive Character of Thought-Rational/Embodied), a cognitive
architecture for human-robot interaction. Our reason for using ACT-R/E is two-fold. First, ACT …

A model of cognitive control in task switching is developed in which controlled performance
depends on the system maintaining access to a code in episodic memory representing the …

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 …