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23. Reducing Interruptions at Work with FlowLight

Manuela Züger1 , André N. Meyer1, Thomas Fritz1 and David Shepherd2
(1)
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
(2)
ABB Corporate Research, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
 

The Cost of Interruptions at Work

In today’s collaborative workplaces, communication is a major activity and is important to achieve a company’s goals. Especially given the sociotechnical nature of software development, communication between stakeholders is important to successfully complete projects. Communication thereby takes many forms, such as e-mail and instant messaging, phone calls, ...

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