Interruptions are a daily reality for professional programmers. Unfortunately, the strategies programmers use to recover lost knowledge and resume work have not yet been well stud...
Developers, like all modern knowledge workers, are frequently interrupted and blocked in their tasks. In this paper we present a contextual inquiry into developers’ current stra...
We present results from a field study investigating the influence of conversations on the multitasking behavior of computer users. We report on several findings, including the timi...
Current user interfaces for Web search, including browsers and search engine sites, typically treat search as a transient activity. However, people often conduct complex, multique...
Many tasks require attention switching. For example, searching for information on one sheet of paper and then entering this information onto another one. With paper we see that pe...