The multitasking mind / Dario D. Salvucci and Niels A. Taatgen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salvucci, Dario D.

Contributor:

Taatgen, Niels A.

Series:

Oxford series on cognitive models and architectures.

Oxford series on cognitive models and architectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human multitasking.

Time management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Multitasking is all around us: the office worker interrupted by a phone call, the teenager texting while driving, the salesperson chatting while entering an order. When multitasking, the mind juggles all the many tasks we're doing this second, this hour, this week, and tries to perform them together-sometimes with great ease, sometimes with great difficulty. We don't often stop to think about how exactly we accomplish these feats of multitasking great and small. How do we switch from one task to another? What types of multitasking are disruptive, and when are they most disruptive? And ultimate

Contents:

Contents; 1. A Unifying Theory of Multitasking; 2. Concurrent Multitasking and Threaded Cognition; 3. Driving and Driver Distraction; 4. Sequential Multitasking, Problem State, and Task Suspension and Resumption; 5. Task Interruption in Human-Computer Interaction; 6. Multitasking and Learning; 7. Complex Tasks and the Challenge of Monotasking; 8. Designing for Multitasking; 9. Reflections and Future Directions; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-045358-3

1-282-79322-5

9786612793226

0-19-978039-0

OCLC:

669500355