"Constant, constant, multi-tasking craziness": managing multiple working spheres

By Víctor M. González, Gloria Mark. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2004

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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Constant Connectivity: Rethinking Interruptions at Work (2011, background): “Like Gonzalez and Mark (2004) and Mark et al. (2005), we intended to make a distinction between internal and external interruptions.”
Something(s) old and something(s) new: Modeling drivers of global virtual team effectiveness (2012, background): “In fact, Hackman (2003) advocates a “bracketing” approach where one considers factors one level above and below the focal level of study.”
The multi‐tasking paradox: perceptions, problems and strategies (2008, positive): “Multi-tasking and working spheres, an empirical study on task-switching and its management More recently, multi-tasking in collaborative informational contexts has been investigated empirically by González and Mark (2004, 2005).”
TaskTracer: a desktop environment to support multi-tasking knowledge workers (2005, background): “By definition, highly multitasking people face continual interruptions as they switch between ongoing tasks [7, 11 , 18].”
The Extended iSelf: The Impact of iPhone Separation on Cognition, Emotion, and Physiology (2015, background): “In addition, people distract themselves by internal stimuli (i.e., anxiety) about half as much as they are interrupted by external influences (González & Mark, 2004).”
Interaction in 4-second bursts: the fragmented nature of attentional resources in mobile HCI (2005, background): “Indeed, González and Mark’s [11] observation study revealed that information workers spent, on average, three minutes working on one event before switching to another.”
The cost of interrupted work: more speed and stress (2008, methodology): “Empirical studies have focused on identifying the extent of interruptions and how they affect tasks [6], the recovery of tasks after an interruption [3, 9], and timing of interruptions, e.”
The Media and Technology Usage and Attitudes Scale: An empirical investigation (2013, result): “For example, Rosen et al. (2013) replicated studies by Gonzalez and Mark (2004), Dabbish, Mark, and Gonzalez (2011) and Judd and Kennedy (2011) in demonstrating that students and office workers switched tasks often and the impetus was most often technological in nature such as an incoming text…”
Facebook and texting made me do it: Media-induced task-switching while studying (2013, background): “In a field study, Gonzalez and Mark (2004) observed 14 information workers for 3 days, noting every action they took as they sat unobtrusively in the back of their cubicles.”
Using task context to improve programmer productivity (2006, background): “In practice, programmers often work on multiple tasks during a typical work day [9].”
Time for Reflection: A Critical Examination of Polychronicity (2010, background): “According to these researchers, a working sphere can be defined “as a set of interrelated events, which share a common motive (or goal), involves the communication or interaction with a particular constellation of people, uses unique resources and has its own individual time framework” ( Gonzalez & ”
No task left behind?: examining the nature of fragmented work (2005, background): “In a previous study, we discovered that information workers switched work events frequently: averaging every three minutes [6].”
Disruption and recovery of computing tasks: field study, analysis, and directions (2007, background): “However, the pursuit of awareness and rapid communication often injects increased numbers of notifications and potential interruptions into ongoing tasks [9, 15, 24].”
An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect Relevant Information during Software Maintenance Tasks (2006, background): “software engineering workplaces [22], [38] and we wanted to see in what ways development environments could help developers manage and recover from them.”
E-mail as a Source and Symbol of Stress (2011, background): “González and Mark (2004, 2005) suggest that the situation is potentially worse than Jackson et al. estimate.”