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Information overload: why some people seem to suffer more than others

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Ruud Janssen,

Henk de PootAuthors Info & Claims

NordiCHI '06: Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1182475.1182521

Published: 14 October 2006 Publication History

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We studied information overload among senior managers in an industrial company. We used the critical incident collection technique to gather specific examples of information overload and coping strategies. We then used textual interpretation and the affinity diagram technique to interpret the interviews and to categorize our respondents, the critical incidents they described, and the coping strategies they mentioned. Our results show that the extent to which people suffer from information overload is closely related to the strategies they use to deal with it.

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NordiCHI '06: Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles

October 2006

517 pages

ISBN:1595933255

DOI:10.1145/1182475

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Anders Mørch
University of Oslo, Norway
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Konrad Morgan
University of Bergen, Norway
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Tone Bratteteig
University of Oslo, Norway
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Gautam Ghosh
Userminded, Norway
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Dag Svanaes
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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