Most operating systems use interface interrupts to schedule network tasks. Interrupt-driven systems can provide low overhead and good latency at low of-fered load, but degrade significantly at higher arrival rates unless care is taken to prevent several pathologies. These are various forms

Our growing reliance on online services accessible on the Internet demands highly available systems that provide correct service without interruptions. Software bugs, operator mistakes, and malicious attacks are a major cause of service interruptions and they can cause arbitrary behavior, that is

during a search task are more likely to result in the user forgetting the primary task goal than interruptions that arrive later on. These findings have implications for the design of user interfaces and notification policies that minimize the disruptiveness of notifications. Keywords: Notifications

User attention is a scarce resource, and users are susceptible to interruption overload. Systems do not reason about the effects of interrupting a user during a task sequence. In this study, we measure effects of interrupting a user at different moments within task execution in terms of task

interruption. A multimodal interface was created to communicate with users by using two ambient channels for interruption: heat and light. These ambient displays acted as external interruption generators designed to get users' attention away from their current task; playing a game on a desktop

As users continue offloading more control and responsibility to the computer, coordinating the asynchronous interactions between the user and computer is becoming increasingly important. Without proper coordination, an application attempting to gain the user’s attention risks interrupting the user

When an automating application needs a user's input or has feedback or other information for that user, it typically engages the user immediately, interrupting the user's current task. To empirically validate why unnecessarily interrupting a user's task should be avoided, we designed

The PCAL9539A is a low-voltage 16-bit General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) expander with interrupt and reset for I 2 C-bus/SMBus applications. NXP I/O expanders provide a simple solution when additional I/Os are needed while keeping interconnections to a minimum, for example, in ACPI power switches

of each other. There is also a built-in option for a matrix arrangement of the sensors: interrupt generation only when two channels are activated simultaneously, suppression of additional channel outputs when two channels are already active. 2. Features and benefits Dynamic touch and proximity sensor

of each other. There is also a built-in option for a matrix arrangement of the sensors: interrupt generation only when two channels are activated simultaneously, suppression of additional channel outputs when two channels are already active. 2. Features and benefits AEC-Q100 compliant for automotive