Comments on: On Interruptions: Theory and Practice http://noahliebman.com/2009/10/on-interruptions-theory-and-practice/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:20:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Cory Kaufman http://noahliebman.com/2009/10/on-interruptions-theory-and-practice/comment-page-1/#comment-1015 Cory Kaufman Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:42:57 +0000 http://noahliebman.com/?p=192#comment-1015 I totally agree-- I did my paper on interruptibility as well, though I think I read different papers. I was really surprised that they measured busy periods as lasting under 2 minutes for the majority of tasks. That just didn't seem right to me. As we talked about in class a couple of weeks ago, interruptions come pretty close to 4 times an hour, and each interruption delays work on average... 15 minutes. Do the math,and you're not getting any work done. Thus, the natural conclusion should be to minimize the interruptions, not delay them. That approach has been working out pretty well for me so far... though I am envious of you having an entire day disconnected. I don't think I could do that, though I'm sure I'd get a ton of work done. I totally agree– I did my paper on interruptibility as well, though I think I read different papers. I was really surprised that they measured busy periods as lasting under 2 minutes for the majority of tasks. That just didn’t seem right to me.

As we talked about in class a couple of weeks ago, interruptions come pretty close to 4 times an hour, and each interruption delays work on average… 15 minutes. Do the math,and you’re not getting any work done. Thus, the natural conclusion should be to minimize the interruptions, not delay them. That approach has been working out pretty well for me so far… though I am envious of you having an entire day disconnected. I don’t think I could do that, though I’m sure I’d get a ton of work done.

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