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 …

Details of the designs and mechanisms in support of human-AI collaboration must be
considered in the real-world fielding of AI technologies. A critical aspect of interaction design …

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 …

Notifications on mobile phones alert users about new messages, emails, social network
updates, and other events. However, little is understood about the nature and effect of such …

Notifications are a core feature of mobile phones. They inform users about a variety of
events. Users may take immediate action or ignore them depending on the importance of a …

We discuss four key types of work interruptions—intrusions, breaks, distractions, and
discrepancies—having different causes and consequences, and we delineate the principle …

We report on a diary study of the activities of information workers aimed at characterizing
how people interleave multiple tasks amidst interruptions. The week-long study revealed the …

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 …

At first glance it seems absurd that busy people doing important jobs should want their
computers to interrupt them. Interruptions are disruptive and people need to concentrate to …