Maintaining Concentration to Achieve Task Completion
Designing the UI to achieve user concentration (PDF Format) ...
"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.
The varying rhythms of life include times of solitary reflection in natural settings, relaxation while listening to music with friends, and casual conversation with family. Sometimes the rhythms shift to purposeful action to achieve meaningful personal or professional goals within strict time limits. In these times, modern information and communication technologies can be remarkable amplifiers of human capabilities. Users who maintain their concentration can move smoothly along the path to goal attainment. When they do so, they can feel mastery of the interface, satisfaction in completion of their tasks, and responsibility for the outcomes.
Unfortunately some interface experiences produce annoying frustrations that distract users’ attention. These frustrations can lead to poorer workplace performance, lower self-esteem, and stressful relationships with colleagues [2, 10]." continued ... (Via Ben Shneiderman and Benjamin B. Bederson)
"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.
The varying rhythms of life include times of solitary reflection in natural settings, relaxation while listening to music with friends, and casual conversation with family. Sometimes the rhythms shift to purposeful action to achieve meaningful personal or professional goals within strict time limits. In these times, modern information and communication technologies can be remarkable amplifiers of human capabilities. Users who maintain their concentration can move smoothly along the path to goal attainment. When they do so, they can feel mastery of the interface, satisfaction in completion of their tasks, and responsibility for the outcomes.
Unfortunately some interface experiences produce annoying frustrations that distract users’ attention. These frustrations can lead to poorer workplace performance, lower self-esteem, and stressful relationships with colleagues [2, 10]." continued ... (Via Ben Shneiderman and Benjamin B. Bederson)
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