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Pareto in the Driver’s Seat: when Goal Intentions affect Multitasking Outcomes
Tip Robertson; Lin Lin; Jennifer Lee
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 2096–2099
This study examines whether people exhibit different multitasking capabilities when they focus on task completion versus task accuracy. We compared undergraduate students’ reading comprehension test results during 1) a completion task and 2) an...
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Does media-multitasking interfere with learning?
Jennifer Lee; Lin Lin; Tip Robertson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 974–978
In the age of technology, multitasking has become a rite of passage for the media warriors in all of us. Media warriors come in all shapes and sizes surrounded by gadgets and gigabytes that promise to make modern life easier for the young, hip, and...
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Human multitasking abilities: Learning tasks vs. performance tasks
Lin Lin; Tip Robertson; Jennifer Lee
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 2589–2592
This study examines the relationship between people’s familiarity with tasks at hand and their abilities to multitask. A quantitative study with 80 undergraduate students is conducted to investigate the participants’ task performances with tasks of...
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Reading while Watching Video: The Effect of Video Content on Reading Comprehension and Media Multitasking Ability
Lin Lin; Jennifer Lee; Tip Robertson
Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 45, No. 2 (2011) pp. 183–201
Media multitasking, or engaging in multiple media and tasks simultaneously, is becoming an increasingly popular phenomenon with the development and engagement in social media. This study examines to what extent video content affects students'...
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So much to learn, so little time: The study of time-critical multitasking behaviors in a multimedia environment
Lin Lin; Jennifer Lee; Tip Robertson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 1897–1901
This study incorporates both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine learners' time-critical multitasking behaviors in a multimedia learning environment. The following questions are investigated: 1) What kinds of multitasking behaviors do...
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Reading Performances between Novices and Experts in Different Media Multitasking Environments
Lin Lin; Tip Robertson; Jennifer Lee
Computers in the Schools Vol. 26, No. 3 (2009) pp. 169–186
This experimental study investigated connections between subject expertise and multitasking ability among college students. One hundred thirty college students participated in the study. Participants were assessed on their subject expertise and...