Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
Smartphone users might be interrupted while interacting with an application, either by intended or unintended circumstances. In this paper, we report on a large-scale observational study that investigated mobile application interruptions in two scenarios: (1) intended back and forth switching between applications and (2) unintended interruptions caused by incoming phone calls. Our findings reveal that these interruptions rarely happen (at most 10% of the daily application usage), but when they do, they may introduce a significant overhead (can delay completion of a task by up to 4 times). We conclude with a discussion of the results, their limitations, and a series of implications for the design of mobile phones. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2012 | 10.1145/2371574.2371617 | Mobile HCI |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
unintended interruption,unintended circumstance,mobile application interruption,large-scale observational study,mobile phone,significant overhead,smartphone user,daily application usage,incoming phone call | Observational study,Computer science,Real-time computing,Phone,Human–computer interaction | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
43 | 1.58 | 10 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luis Leiva | 1 | 56 | 4.29 |
| Matthias Böhmer | 2 | 533 | 28.10 |
| Sven Gehring | 3 | 299 | 26.04 |
| Antonio Krüger | 4 | 1537 | 127.04 |