Task Switching and Visual Discrimination in Pedestrian Mobile Multitasking: Influence of IT Mobile Task Type

Pierre-Majorique Léger (), Elise Labonté-Lemoyne (), Marc Fredette (), Ann-Frances Cameron (), François Bellavance (), Franco Lepore (), Jocelyn Faubert (), Elise Boissonneault (), Audrey Murray (), Shang-Lin Chen () and Sylvain Sénécal ()
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Pierre-Majorique Léger: HEC Montréal
Elise Labonté-Lemoyne: HEC Montréal
Marc Fredette: HEC Montréal
Ann-Frances Cameron: HEC Montréal
François Bellavance: HEC Montréal
Franco Lepore: Université de Montréal
Jocelyn Faubert: Université de Montréal
Elise Boissonneault: HEC Montréal
Audrey Murray: HEC Montréal
Shang-Lin Chen: HEC Montréal
Sylvain Sénécal: HEC Montréal

A chapter in Information Systems and Neuroscience, 2020, pp 245-251 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract With the growing use of smartphones in our daily life, mobile multitasking has become a widespread (and often dangerous) behavior. Research on mobile multitasking thus far only focuses on a limited number of IT tasks that can be performed with a smartphone: talking, listening to music, and texting. Thus, we do not know the extent to which these results generalize to other types of mobile multitasking behaviors such as reading while walking and gaming while walking. Also, we do not know the extent to which motor movement through physical space (i.e., walking vs. only standing) affects this phenomena. The current paper reports on an ongoing research that explores these questions. Our preliminary results suggest that mobile and standing multitasking leads to the inability to perceive incoming stimuli. Gaming appears to be the most dangerous mobile multitasking task for pedestrians.

Keywords: Multitasking; Pedestrian; EEG; Texting while walking; Gaming while walking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28144-1_27

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