Task Interruption: Resumption Lag and the Role of Cues

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Association of interruptions with an increased risk and severity of medication administration errors. (2010, background): “Returning to a disrupted task requires completion of the interrupting task and then regaining the context of the original task.(2,4) In surveys and retrospective accounts of adverse incidents, interruptions have been implicated,(5) yet realworld evidence of the relationship between interruptions and”
An Empirical Examination of the Educational Impact of Text Message-Induced Task Switching in the Classroom: Educational Implications and Strategies to Enhance Learning (2011, background): “For example, Altmann and Trafton (2004) studied resumption lag, defined as the time interval between the completion of the secondary (interrupting) task and the first action in returning to the primary task, and found substantial resumption lags after being interrupted.”
Validating human-robot interaction schemes in multitasking environments (2005, background): “the cost of switching between tasks [45], [46] and the design of interfaces to support switching [47].”