interruption
Let an agent handle interruptions by context: communication etiquette, workplace focus, service outages with safety routing, and astronomical senses.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Work Focus.
Manage
Reducing interruptions.
Manage
Managing interruptions.
- Which techniques help reduce or handle interruptions at work? action
- What does research say about resumption costs? provenance
Critical
Safety-critical tasks.
Critical
Safety-critical tasks.
- Is the interrupted task safety-critical, such as medication rounds or checklists? boundary
- Which protocols prevent errors? provenance
Conversation Etiquette.
Respond
Handling interruptions.
Respond
Responding.
- How can someone politely stop being interrupted? action
- How can a speaker interrupt appropriately when needed? action
Culture
Norms.
Culture
Cultural norms.
- Do norms about overlap and interruption differ by culture, according to research? provenance
- How strong is the evidence? boundary
Services Outages.
Outage
Service interruptions.
Outage
Outages.
- Is there a reported outage, according to the provider? provenance
- When is restoration expected? provenance
Vulnerable
Medical dependence.
Vulnerable
Medical dependence.
- Does someone rely on powered medical equipment during this outage? boundary
- Should emergency services or the priority services register be contacted? action
Senses Disambiguation.
Astronomy
Eclipses and occultations.
Astronomy
Astronomical sense.
- Is an eclipse or occultation meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Computing
Hardware interrupts.
Computing
Computing sense.
- Is a processor interrupt meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- noun.event
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.EVT
- Facets: substance
- activity
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- dislocation, disruption, break, punctuation, eclipse, occultation, solar eclipse, lunar eclipse, annular eclipse, total eclipse, partial eclipse
What it is Filled
An abrupt occurrence that breaks off an ongoing activity or process, such as being interrupted in conversation, a disruption at work, a break in service supply, or in astronomy the temporary blocking of one body by another as in an eclipse or occultation.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle interruptions by context: communication etiquette, workplace focus, service outages with safety routing, and astronomical senses.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Abrupt
- Breaks continuity
- May be external or self-initiated
- Has costs to resume
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Interrupt a safety-critical process, such as a medical device or control system, without authorization.
- Cause deliberate interruption of a service other people rely on.
- Hide or understate an interruption from the people affected by it.
- Resume an interrupted operation that may now be unsafe without checking its state.
Only with a human decision
- Planned interruption of a utility or service to users.
- Overriding a person's instruction to stop.
May
- Report and log interruptions to a service or process it monitors, with time and cause where known.
- Pause its own work cleanly when a person interrupts it.
Moral aspects Filled
- Interruptions to power, water or care can endanger vulnerable people.
- Who gets interrupted in conversation reflects and reinforces power and bias.
Who is affected
- Users of the interrupted service
- People speaking or working
- Operators
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the concept; the operator of a service answers for its interruptions.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-07298313-n - registry parent class
related
- event - category
- disruption - related concept
- power outage - example
- occultation - astronomical example
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.interruption
- Open English WordNet: oewn-07382412-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Breaks in conversation or work
- Service outage notices
- A planned pause is not an abrupt interruption
- Not a single object; breaks in speech, work, supply or observation.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- manage interruptions at work
- respond to interruptions in conversation
- find information on service outages
- separate astronomical senses
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Outages affecting people who rely on medical equipment
- Errors after interruptions in safety-critical work
- Rude or dominating conversational behaviour
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Utility service standards and outage compensation rules
- ISO 22301 business continuity
Context of use required Filled
- Describing and managing breaks in activities and services.
- conversational interruptions
- workplace interruptions
- service and supply outages
- process disruptions
- eclipses and occultations
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-07382412-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: interruption - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should service outages be a separate entry?
- How should business continuity be linked?
- How should astronomical senses be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-interruption/spec.json