Behavioral performance and visual attention in communication multitasking: A comparison between instant messaging and online voice chat

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 968-975

  Wang, Zheng ^a   David, Prabu ^b   Srivastava, Jatin ^c   Powers, Stacie ^a   Brady, Christine ^a   D'Angelo, Jonathan ^a   Moreland, Jennifer ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central bottleneck theory; Divided attention; Eye movement; Limited capacity of processing; Multitasking; Threaded cognition

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL PERFORMANCE; CENTRAL BOTTLENECK THEORY; COMMUNICATION TASK; DIVIDED ATTENTION; INSTANT MESSAGING; LIMITED CAPACITY; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; THREADED COGNITION; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL CHANNELS; VOICE CHAT;

COMMUNICATION; DROPS; EYE MOVEMENTS; MESSAGE PASSING; MULTITASKING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84862821813     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2011.12.018     Document Type: Article

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