Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Most technical support for multi-tasking considers multi-tasking as a single-user activity.  consider multi-tasking instead as a collaborative activity and in this paper,  report on a prototype designed to help people manage interruptions by broadcasting to colleagues their availability for interruptions for specific projects. The prototype is designed as a tangible interface, a desktop "Japanese Garden" where rocks represent a person's projects.  first performed ethnographic observations of the prototype in a natural work environment and found that users used the prototype easily to signal work on their current task-at-hand. Hover,  found that social agreements are needed as ll as a technical solution.  then conducted an experiment to test the use of the prototype compared to using a chat system alone to signal availability for interruptions. Our results shod that with our prototype, task performance results did not differ, but collaborating partners sent significantly fer coordination messages, fer inappropriate messages, and produced fer interruptions.  discuss future design ideas using tangible interfaces to manage multi-tasking.
['Hideto Yuzawa', 'Gloria Mark']
I am writing a research paper on a idea The japanese garden: task awareness for collaborative multitasking
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