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Up until now, I have discussed the extent to which people are distracted while working with digital media. They continually switch among working spheres throughout the workday. But what leads information workers to be focused in the workplace? David Brooks, the op-ed columnist for the New York Times, in his column “The Art of Focus” describes that he is losing “the attention war” (Brooks, 2014). Are we really? How does multitasking affect information focus? This chapter examines the converse perspective of distraction and interruptions: characteristics of focus for information workers.
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Mark, G. (2015). Focus. In: Multitasking in the Digital Age. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02212-8_7
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