Werner, Dominick, Hovestadt, Christian ORCID: 0000-0002-6448-4660, Adam, Martin and Schulze, Laura
(2019).
Shielding Focus Against Distractions: Designing Focus Assistants for Knowledge Workers.
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Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2019, Munich, Germany, December 15-18, 2019,
Association for Information Systems.
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Abstract
Technological developments in information technology enabled the ubiquitous emergence of instant messages and push notifications in private and work lives. Moreover, open plan office designs and organizational shifts such as agile methodologies further tighten interactions among employees. These new opportunities, however, also pose a double-edge sword in that large amounts of unwanted information may repeatedly draw attention from the primary task, thus distracting and preventing knowledge workers from working effectively. In this paper, we present a design science research project on how to design a focus assistant that shields its users against digital and physical distractions to sustain their focus. Drawing on literature on attention, focus and distraction, we developed seven design principles and derived first potential features for a prototype. By developing the basis to build an artifact, we intend to contribute to the constituent IS community on assisting workers in technology-enabled work arrangements.
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-105968 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Title of Book: | Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2019, Munich, Germany, December 15-18, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | December 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Association for Information Systems | ||||||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences | ||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Weitere Institute, Arbeits- und Forschungsgruppen > Cologne Institute for Information Systems (CIIS) Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Business Administration > Information Systems > Chair for Information Systems and Systems Development |
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Subjects: | Data processing Computer science Management and auxiliary services |
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Event Type: | Conference | ||||||||||||||||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/10596 |
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