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Interruption Lab Study

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- 12. "the interruptions didn't really bother me. [in passive interruption, didn't think about main task]. I didn't really watch, I refocused."

G.3 - relaxed during passive interruption, rehearsed instructions, mind went blank, ignored passive interruption, thought about main task,

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- 1. "ignored passive interruption, I didn't have to put forth any energy, I relaxed. [active interruption] I had to think"

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- 1. "ignored passive interruption, I didn't have to put forth any energy, I relaxed. [active interruption] I had to think"

- 2. "If I didn't have to click I was able to rehearse what I was going to do. If I had to click then my was obviously involved in something else [unable to rehearse]"

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- 3. "During passive interruption: I tried to [think about SC task]. active: I could only do one thing at a time."
- 4. "the clicking one was just more destructive, make you tend to forget what it is you're supposed to be doing when you went back. passive interruption: I watched the images but I was also focusing on what I should be doing when I get back. Every couple seconds reminding myself of what I should be doing when I go back."
- 5. "[active]: I paid attention to the interruption, but I had filed in my mind where I had left off, since I was warned that the interruption was coming. So I was just: "Okay, mental note:" [passive] type was much easier because you could just ignore it. A lot of the time I didn't pay attention to it, I just tried to remember what I was going to get back to in the main task, like "just get this over with and get back to it." [Was thinking of main task during passive interruption."

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- 3. "During passive interruption: I tried to think about [the SC task]. [active]: I could only do one thing at a time."
- 4. "the clicking one was just more destructive, make you tend to forget what it is you're supposed to be doing when you went back. [passive interruption]: I watched the images but I was also focusing on what I should be doing when I get back. Every couple seconds reminding myself of what I should be doing when I go back."
- 5. "[active]: I paid attention to the interruption, but I had filed in my mind where I had left off, since I was warned that the interruption was coming. So I was just: "Okay, mental note:" [passive] type was much easier because you could just ignore it. A lot of the time I didn't pay attention to it, I just tried to remember what I was going to get back to in the main task, like "just get this over with and get back to it." [Was thinking of main task during passive interruption]."

- 6. "When I went back, regardless of what the interruption was, there was no difference in my strategy. [passive] - half way through I realized that I didn't have to have my finger on the cursor and I could just look at [the images]. Didn't think about main task, just took a break."
- 7. "the active was more difficult. I was concentrating more on the interruption than on the task. [passive] it was easier when you didn't have to click - all you did was watch, better able to concentrate on [main tasks]"
- 8. "[passive] it was no big deal because you didn't have to do anything. just waiting for it to finish so you wouldn't forget too much, trying to remember what it was supposed to be. [active] you were far to busy"
- 9. "[active]: it was a little harder, harder to remember the more difficult ones, [unable to think of main tasks]. [passive]: I let my mind go blank."
- 10. "[passive] If I did it was not consciously."

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- 11. "I found the passive one annoying, you were just sitting there, but it was easier. Didn't rehearse, I had done that already during the flashy light. I was annoyed. I am an action person so I didn't mind shifting to a new activity whereas just sitting there was annoying"
- 12. "I found it extremely easy to ignore the [passive interruption], I turned my mind off. in the [active] interruption I had less opportunity to retain the instructions"

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- 11. "I found the passive one annoying, you were just sitting there, but it was easier. Didn't rehearse, I had done that already during the flashy light. I was annoyed. I am an action person so I didn't mind shifting to a new activity whereas just sitting there was annoying"
- 12. "I found it extremely easy to ignore the [passive interruption], I turned my mind off. in the [active] interruption I had less opportunity to retain the instructions"