Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Multitasking information seeking and searching processes
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Instant messaging in teen life
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
An information overload study: using design methods for understanding
OZCHI '06 Proceedings of the 18th Australia conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Design: Activities, Artefacts and Environments
Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World HC
Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World HC
Multitasking during Web search sessions
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
How are campus students using social media to support their studies? An explorative interview study
Education and Information Technologies
Facebook and texting made me do it: Media-induced task-switching while studying
Computers in Human Behavior
Making sense of multitasking: Key behaviours
Computers & Education
The Media and Technology Usage and Attitudes Scale: An empirical investigation
Computers in Human Behavior
Making sense of multitasking: The role of Facebook
Computers & Education
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Logs of on-campus computer and Internet usage were used to conduct a study of computer-based task switching and multitasking by undergraduate medical students. A detailed analysis of over 6000 individual sessions revealed that while a majority of students engaged in both task switching and multitasking behaviours, they did so less frequently than 'Net Generation' rhetoric implies. The incidence and intensity of task switching and multitasking among students ranged from low to very high but infrequent and low-level multitaskers easily outnumbered inveterate multitaskers. Male and international students were significantly more likely to task switch and multitask than their female and local counterparts. Students who entered University directly from secondary school were significantly more likely to multitask than graduate students, as were first year compared to second year students, suggesting that post-secondary experiences may temper students' propensity or inclination to multitask.