Maintaining concentration to achieve task completion

Authors:
Ben Shneiderman;Benjamin B. Bederson
Affiliations:
University of Maryland, College Park, MD;University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Venue:
DUX '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience
Year:
2005

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Abstract

When faced with a challenging goal, knowledge workers need to concentrate on their tasks so that they move forward toward completion. Since frustrations, distractions, and interruptions can interfere with their smooth progress, design strategies should enable users to maintain concentration. This paper promotes awareness of this issue, reviews related work, and suggests three initial strategies: Reduce short-term and working memory load, provide information abundant interfaces, and increase automaticity.