A5.08
Interruption cost and task resumption
Cards in this group · 6
- A5.08.1Interruption timing should be chosen at subtask boundaries
- A5.08.2The system should preserve the state and position from before the interruption
- A5.08.3A measurable resumption lag exists before performance returns to pre-interruption levels
- A5.08.4Resumption cost has two components — re-executing the primary task and remembering the interrupting task — that must be accounted for separately
- A5.08.5Self-initiated interruptions have lower resumption cost than externally imposed ones
- A5.08.6The more information an interruption shares with the primary task, the more reconstruction work resumption requires