If they interrupt their current task (which could also be a call) to handle this call, the nurses have to remember themselves that they have to go back to that interrupted task.
Although spatial memory in visual search seems to be relatively fragile, the ability to remember where you were in a task has also proven to be a key component in resuming interrupted computer tasks (Ratwani, Andrews, McCurry, Trafton, & Peterson, 2007; Ratwani & Trafton, 2008).
Chatting or emailing interrupted other tasks, with difficulties filtering important from unimportant messages, leading to mental overload.
This type of tradeoff can be experimentally induced in an interrupted data-entry task by extending the resumption lag or manipulating the time-cost penalty (Brumby, Cox, & Back, 2013).
Spatial memory, which we define as memory for locations in a visual scene, is thought to play an important role in the successful resumption of an interrupted visual search task.
The lack of prospective memory formation during the interruption lag and the lack of environment cues during the resumption lag had been described to impair the ability of the interrupted individual to complete the task accurately [ 18- 21].
Estimation of time-dependent travel time in an urban network is a challenging task due to the interrupted nature of vehicular traffic flows.
We examined effects of adding brief (1 second) lags between trials in a task designed to study errors in interrupted sequential performance.
Prediction of animal miRNA targets is a challenging task due to the incomplete and interrupted base pairing between a miRNA and its target.
Typically, we have several tasks at hand, some of which are in interrupted state while others are being carried out.
