Name
Title | ||
|---|---|---|
Behavioral performance and visual attention in communication multitasking: A comparison between instant messaging and online voice chat |
Abstract | ||
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Participants carried out a visual pattern-matching task on a computer while communicating with a confederate either via instant messaging (IM) or online voice chat. Communicating with a confederate led to a 50% drop in visual pattern-matching performance in the IM condition and a 30% drop in the voice condition. Visual fixations on pattern-matching were fewer and shorter during the communication task and a greater loss of fixations was found in the IM condition than the voice condition. The results, examined within a threaded cognition framework, suggest that distributing the work between the audio and visual channels reduces performance degradation. Implications for media literacy and distracted-driving are discussed. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2012 | 10.1016/j.chb.2011.12.018 | Computers in Human Behavior |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Multitasking,Eye movement,Divided attention,Central bottleneck theory,Limited capacity of processing,Threaded cognition | Social psychology,Fixation (psychology),Computer science,Instant messaging,Visual attention,Eye movement,Voice chat,Cognition,Divided attention,Human multitasking,Multimedia | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
28 | 3 | 0747-5632 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
16 | 1.23 | 5 |
Authors | ||
7 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zheng Wang | 1 | 61 | 7.06 |
| Prabu David | 2 | 53 | 5.99 |
| Jatin Srivastava | 3 | 38 | 3.13 |
| Stacie Powers | 4 | 19 | 1.70 |
| Christine Brady | 5 | 16 | 1.23 |
| Jonathan D'Angelo | 6 | 23 | 1.86 |
| Jennifer Moreland | 7 | 33 | 2.05 |