A look at task-switching and multi-tasking behaviors: From the perspective of the computer usage among a large number of people

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 237-244

  Zhang, Tongda ^a   Sun, Xiao ^b   Chai, Yueting ^b   Aghajan, Hamid ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computer usage; Multitasking; Power law; Task Switching Graph; Task switching

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; MOBILE DEVICES; MULTITASKING; SWITCHING; WEBSITES;

COMPUTER USAGES; COMPUTER-BASED TASKS; INSTANT MESSENGERS; ON-LINE APPLICATIONS; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; POWER-LAW; TASK SWITCHING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84925151185     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.012     Document Type: Article

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