Meet the Life Hackers
Nice article that discuss HCI in dept. It also touches on disruption analysis. Here's an interesting quote:“Sure, the high-tech workers grumbled and moaned about disruptions, and they all claimed that they preferred to work in long, luxurious stretches. But they grudgingly admitted that many of their daily distractions were essential to their jobs. When someone forwards you an urgent e-mail message, it's often something you really do need to see; if a cellphone call breaks through while you're desperately trying to solve a problem, it might be the call that saves your hide. In the language of computer sociology, our jobs today are ”interrupt driven.“ Distractions are not just a plague on our work - sometimes they are our work. To be cut off from other workers is to be cut off from everything.”
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