Here are the slides for my paper entitled “Snookered by an interruption? Use a cue” (co-authored with Anna Cox and Sandy Gould from UCL), which I presented at HCI2012 in Birmingham, UK.
EDIT: Now spliced together with the audio from the presentation! (Lasts 10 minutes.)
And here’s my dissertation on which the paper was based.
For the main project of my MSc in Human-Computer Interaction I chose to explore the domain of interruptions. This is an important area that has seen quite a lot of activity in recent years (see this list of resources on the subject). As more devices and applications vie for our attention, interruptions are the inevitable consequence. And no matter how well trained we might be, we remain susceptible to their disruptive effects and we make errors. More