Name
Abstract | ||
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Chronic multitaskers perform worse on core multitasking skills: memory management, cognitive filtering and task switching, likely due to their inability to filter irrelevant stimuli [17]. Our experiment examines effects of chronic multitasking with task-relevant and irrelevant distractors on analytical writing quality. We found a general switch cost and, when controlling for that cost, effects of chronic multitasking habits: heavy multitaskers write worse essays in the irrelevant condition and better essays in the relevant condition. Our study changes multitasking research paradigms in two fundamental ways: it studied a realistic writing scenario including access to both irrelevant and relevant distractors. We found that the effect of chronic multitasking is complex; heavy multitaskers are seduced by unrelated distractors but able to integrate multiple sources of relevant information. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1145/2702123.2702367 | CHI |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
media multitasking index,user/machine systems,analytical writing,multitasking,chronic multitasking,distractors | Task switching,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Memory management,Human multitasking,Cognition | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
4 | 0.50 | 9 |
Authors | ||
7 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danielle M. Lottridge | 1 | 13 | 3.05 |
| Christine Rosakranse | 2 | 4 | 0.50 |
| Catherine S. Oh | 3 | 18 | 1.29 |
| Sean Westwood | 4 | 10 | 1.35 |
| Katherine A. Baldoni | 5 | 4 | 0.50 |
| Abrey S. Mann | 6 | 4 | 0.50 |
| Clifford Nass | 7 | 2416 | 587.98 |