What's going on? Age, distraction, and multitasking during online survey taking

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 236-244

  Zwarun, Lara ^a   Hall, Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer; Data collection; Distraction; Multitasking; Survey

Indexed keywords

MULTITASKING; SURVEYING;

DATA COLLECTION; DISTRACTION; ONLINE SURVEYS;

COMPUTERS;

EID: 84908575591     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.09.041     Document Type: Article

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