Customer Experience Musings

Are interruptions wasteful? Yes.

Written by Evan Hamilton | Sep 9, 2013, 3:48:46 AM

"An...email alert was associated with users taking, on average, 16 minutes and 33 seconds...before returning to the state of the application [prior to the distraction]. [For] IM alerts...users spent on average 10 minutes and 58 seconds."

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Via Microsoft Research