Time to Forget
| Autor: | Michael Siebers, Cornelia Niessen, Kyra Göbel, Ute Schmid |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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03 medical and health sciences
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 0302 clinical medicine Work (electrical) Emerging technologies Computer science 05 social sciences 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Data science 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 050105 experimental psychology Applied Psychology Information overload |
| Zdroj: | Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie A&O. 64:30-45 |
| ISSN: | 2190-6270 0932-4089 |
| DOI: | 10.1026/0932-4089/a000308 |
| Popis: | Abstract. Emerging technologies at work encourage the collection and storage of large amounts of data. However, these vast quantities of data are likely to impair efficient work decisions by employees over time, with negative consequences for the organization. As human attention increasingly represents the scarce resource at work, the present paper focuses on a mechanism of attentional control at work – namely, intentionally forgetting unwanted and outdated internal (e. g., knowledge) and external (e. g., digital objects) information. The purpose of this paper is threefold. Based on a short review of the research on intentional forgetting, a prototypical conceptualization of an interactive assistive system (Dare2Del, cognitive companion) is provided, which should support employees in temporally ignoring or permanently deleting outdated information. Then, we completed a critical incident study to examine why and when employees might want to forget information at work, and to identify in which working situations an assistive system should be particularly helpful. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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