Preparing to resume an interrupted task: effects of prospective goal encoding and retrospective rehearsal

By J. Gregory Trafton, Erik M. Altmann, Derek P. Brock, Farilee Mintz. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2003

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Social Psychology

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Disruption and recovery of computing tasks: field study, analysis, and directions (2007, background): “…explored to date include reducing the frequency and costs of interruptions through identifying the attentional state of users [13, 16, 18] and deferring or scheduling notifications in an intelligent, strategic manner [13, 20, 23], and providing support for recovering from interruption [27, 29].”
Pardon the Interruption: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda for Research on Work Interruptions (2019, background): “Theoretically, the most widely used theory is the memory for goals theory that focuses on the memory-based suspension (activation) of the goals of the interrupted (interrupting) task during an interruption (Altmann & Trafton, 2002; Trafton et al., 2003).”
ARE UNCLICKED ADS WASTED? ENDURING EFFECTS OF BANNER AND POP-UP AD EXPOSURES ON BRAND MEMORY AND ATTITUDES (2008, background): “Trafton et al.’s [2003] memory model suggests that when a consumer is unexpectedly interrupted it helps to have the primary-task display perceptually available, to allow retrieval cues to be quickly accessed and accurately encoded, i.”
Threaded cognition: an integrated theory of concurrent multitasking. (2008, background): “For instance, Trafton, Altmann, Brock, and Mintz (2003) explored people’s behavior during the interruption lag ,o r the time interval between an alert of an interruption (e.g., a phone ringing) and the actual interrupting task (e.g., the phone conversation).”
Interruptions to workflow: Their relationship with irritation and satisfaction with performance, and the mediating roles of time pressure and mental demands (2013, background): “Attention must be shifted, goal states and action rules must be retrieved (Monsell, 2003) and when the primary (interrupted) task is resumed (Trafton et al., 2003), all these steps must be repeated.”
Just more of the same, or different? An integrative theoretical framework for the study of cumulative interruptions at work (2015, result): “(1999) found an increase of speed and accuracy in laboratory tasks, whereas in the experiment of Zijlstra et al. (1999), subjects carried out both tasks faster.”
Measuring and defining the experience of immersion in games (2008, background): “The warning avoids startling participants and so the interruption has less impact on the task in hand (Trafton et al., 2003).”
The effects of cues on task interruption recovery in a concurrent multitasking environment (2025, unknown): “Trafton proposed the initial timeline of task interruption 19 , as depicted in Fig.”
EEG Correlates of Cognitive Dynamics in Task Resumption After Interruptions: The Impact of Available Time and Flexibility (2024, unknown): “Likewise, negative consequences of interruptions on task performance can be mitigated if participants can anticipate an upcoming interruption (Kiesel et al. 2010; Labonté et al. 2019; Meiran et al. 2000; Trafton et al. 2003; Ülkü et al. 2024).”
How to refocus attention on working memory representations following interruptions—Evidence from frontal theta and posterior alpha oscillations (2021, methodology): “…highlights alpha power lateralization as a temporal indicator for the resumption of the primary task and thus constitutes an electrophysiological correlate of the resumption lag that should be more precise than the previous approaches based on behavioural parameters (e.g., Trafton et al., 2003).”
Frontal theta and posterior alpha oscillations reflect the reactivation of working memory representations following interruptions (2020, methodology): “The resumption lag, on the other hand, includes the reactivation of goals and schemata of the primary task (Altmann & Trafton, 2002; Trafton et al., 2003).”