Stefan Mileschin

A new study from BYU and Google has found that the current method of warning messages appearing while people are typing, watching a video, uploading files, is pretty dumb because people ignore them.

Researchers found these times are less effective because of “dual task interference,” a neural limitation where even simple tasks can’t be simultaneously performed without significant performance loss.

Study co-author and BYU information systems professor Anthony Vance said that the average punter’s brain can’t handle multitasking very well and software developers categorically present warning messages without any regard to what the user is doing.

“They interrupt us constantly and our research shows there’s a high penalty that comes by presenting these messages at random times.”

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