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Monday, December 7, 2009
Computer Pop-Ups Waste Time Even After They Have Disappeared
From The Daily Mail:
The annoyance of computer screen pop-ups lasts long after they have disappeared or been closed, research has found.
Although they might stay on the screen for just a few seconds, pop-ups make us lose more time trying to find our place and resume the task that was interrupted, a Cardiff University study concluded.
The research, led by Dr Helen Hodgetts and Professor Dylan Jones, examined the cost of on-screen interruptions in terms of the time taken to complete a simple seven-step computer task.
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