Interruption Practice Reduces Errors

Abstract

Mitigating the effects of interruptions is important for tackling the increasing number of possible disruptions at home, at work, and online. Previous work has shown that the benefits of practice can decrease the amount of time it takes to resume a task after an interruption. This paper demonstrates that the same benefit can be extended to error rates at the post-completion step showing that a general increase in interruptions leads to a decrease in error rates for the last step of a form-filling task.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA619257

Entities

People

  • J. Gregory Trafton
  • Kevin Zish

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Organs
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computers
  • Drug Therapy
  • Errors
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Patient Care
  • Physicians
  • Psychology
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.