Interruptions



Zish, K., McCurry, J. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2020). The benefits of practice with interruptions is step-specific. The 42nd Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Aguiar, N., Zish, K., McCurry, J. M. & Trafton, J. G. (2018). Interruptions lead to improved confidence-accuracy calibration: Response time as an internal cue for confidence. The 40th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting.

Zish, K., McCurry, J. M., Aguiar, N., & Trafton, J. G. (2017). Interruptions reduce confidence judgments: Predictions of three sequential sampling models. The 39th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting.

Altmann, E. M., Trafton, J. G., & Hambrick, D. Z. (2017). Effects of Interruption Length on Procedural Errors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 23, 216-229.

Aguiar, N., Zish, K., & Trafton, J. G. (2016). Interruptions Reduce Performance across All Levels of Signal Detection When Estimations of Confidence are Highest. Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference 2016.

Zish, K., Hassanzadeh, S., McCurry, J. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2015). Interruptions can Change the Perceived Relationship between Accuracy and Certainty. Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference 2015.

Altmann, E. M. & Trafton, J. G. (2015). Brief lags in interrupted sequential performance: Evaluating a model and model evaluation method. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 79, 51-65.

Altmann, E. M., Trafton, J. G., & Hambrick, D. Z. (2014). Momentary interruptions can derail the train of thought. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(1), 215-226.

Zish, K., & Trafton, J. G. (2014). Interruption Practice Reduces Errors. Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference 2014.

Trafton, J. G., Jacobs, A., Harrison, A. M. (2012). Building and verifying a predictive model of interruption resumption. Transactions of IEEE, 100(3), 648-659.

Cades, D. M., Boehm-Davis, D. A., Monk, C. A., & Trafton, J. G. (2011). Mitigating Disruptive Effects of Interruptions through Training: What Needs to be Practiced? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 17(2), 97-109.

Chen, J., Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2010). The Effect of Interruptions and Global Placekeeping on Postcompletion Error Rates. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 54th Annual Meeting.

Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2010). An Eye Movement Analysis of the Effect of Interruption Modality on Primary Task Performance. Human Factors. 52(3), 370-380.

Salvucci, D., Monk, C., & Trafton, J. G. (2009). A Process-Model Account of Task Interruption and Resumption: When Does Encoding of the Problem State Occur? Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting.

Andrews, A. E., Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2009). The Effect of Alert Type to an Interruption on Primary Task Resumption. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting.

Ratwani, R. M., Andrews, A. E., Sousk, J. D., & Trafton, J. G. (2008). The effect of interruption modality on primary task resumption. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 52nd Annual Meeting. [Best student paper]

Cades, D. M., Werner, N., Trafton, J. G., Boehm-Davis, D. A., & Monk, C. A. (2008). Dealing with Interruptions can be Complex, but does Interruption Complexity Matter: a Mental Resources Approach to Quantifying Disruptions. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 52nd Annual Meeting.

Monk, C. M., Trafton, J. G., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2008). The Effect of Interruption Duration and Demand on Resuming Suspended Goals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 14(4), 299-313. [Lead Article]

Trafton, J. G., & Monk, C. M. (2008). Task Interruptions. In D. A. Boehm-Davis (Ed.), Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics, Volume 3

Altmann, E. M. & Trafton, J. G. (2007). Timecourse of Recovery from Task Interruption: Data and a Model. Psychonomics Bulletin and Review, 14(6), 1079-1084.

Brudzinski, M. E., Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2007). Goal and spatial memory following interruption. In Proceedings of the International Conference of Cognitive Modeling (ICCM).

Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2007). Beyond the Time Cost of Interruptions on Primary Task Performance: Understanding Errors. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Cades, D. M., Trafton, J. G., Monk, C. M., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2007). Does the Difficulty of an Interruption Affect our Ability to Resume? Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 51st Annual Meeting.

Ratwani, R. M., Andrews, A., McCurry, M., & Trafton, J. G. (2007). Using Peripheral Processing and Spatial Memory to Facilitate Task Resumption. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 51st Annual Meeting.

Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2006). Helpful or harmful? Examining the effects of interruptions on task performance. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting.

Cades, D. M., Trafton, J. G., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2006). Mitigating Disruptions: Can Resuming an Interrupted Task Be Trained? Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting.

Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2006). Now, where was I? Examining the Perceptual Processes while Resuming an Interrupted Task. The proceedings of the twenty-eighth annual conference of the cognitive science society.

Trafton, J. G., Altmann, E. M., & Brock, D. P. (2005). Huh, what was I doing? How people use environmental cues after an interruption. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 49th Annual Meeting.

Monk, C. A., Boehm-Davis, D. A., Mason, G., & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Recovering from interruptions: Implications for driver distraction research. Human factors, 46(4), 650-663.

Altmann, E. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Task interruption: Resumption lag and the role of cues. The proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual conference of the cognitive science society.

Trafton, J. G., Altmann, E. M., Brock, D. P., & Mintz, F. E. (2003). Preparing to resume an interrupted task: Effects of prospective goal encoding and retrospective rehearsal. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 58(5), 583-603.

Monk, C. M., Boehm-Davis, D. A., & Trafton, J. G. (2002). The attentional costs of interrupting task performance at various stages. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting.

Altmann, E. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2002). Memory for goals: An activation‐based model. Cognitive science, 26(1), 39-83.

Altmann, E. M., & Trafton, J. G. (1999). Memory for goals: An architectural perspective. In Proceedings of the twenty-first annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 19, p. 24). Erlbaum Hillsdale, NJ.