1977 — Victor A. Altshul, "The So-Called Boring Patient", American Journal of Psychotherapy, 31(4), 533-545:
Clearly, the concept of signal boredom would correspond to what I earlier termed "microboredom."
2001 — D. C. Denison, "And The Next Big Thing Is…", Boston Globe, 8 October 2001:
Altman, who is a vice president and director of business development for the personal communication sector at Motorola, believes that a host of microboredom busters are on the horizon because many of the next-generation cellphones are designed to be platforms for a new variant of the popular Java programming language.
Goldstein theorizes that the motive was the same "microboredom" that inclines users of mobile check-in apps to announce that they've arrived at Chili’s […]