Multitasking is part of the everyday lives of both adolescents and adults. We often multitask during social interactions by simultaneously keeping track of other non-social information. Here, we examined how keeping track of non-social information impacts the ability to navigate social interactions in adolescents and adults. Participants aged 11-17 and 22-30 years old were instructed to carry o...

Considerable research has investigated how affect influences performance on a single task; however, little is known about the role of affect in complex multitasking environments. In this paper, 178 participants multitasked in a synthetic work environment (SYNWORK) consisting of memory, visual monitoring, auditory monitoring, and math tasks. Participants multitasked for a 3-min baseline phase (M...

Persons are often engaged in activities that combine multiple tasks (so called multitasking), even though this combination is typically accompanied by performance costs in the individual tasks in comparison to their performance as single tasks. Such performance costs suggest that performing multiple tasks brings the cognitive processing system to its limits. However, the observed limitations ca...

As media multitasking becomes the most common form of entertainment consumption, foundational research is needed to explore actual patterns of multitasking behavior. This work uses direct observation to provide better insight into media multitasking, exploring visual cues that encourage or discourage switching. A first eyetracker study recorded consumer reactions to simultaneous television and ...

In a large-scale computing cluster, the job completions can be substantially delayed due to two sources of variability, namely, variability in the job size and that in the machine service capacity. To tackle this issue, existing works have proposed various scheduling algorithms which exploit redundancy wherein a job runs on multiple servers until the first completes. In this paper, we explore t...

Multitasking and interruptions have been studied using a variety of methods in multiple fields (e.g., HCI, cognitive science, computer science, and social sciences). This diversity brings many complementary insights. However, it also challenges researchers to understand how seemingly disparate ideas can best be integrated to further theory and to inform the design of interactive systems. There ...

The study aimed to assess workers’ perception of autonomy, attentional control for multitasking, and well-being. research is a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional survey. Administrative technicians in education at the Federal Institute Santa Catarina responded instruments. There negative relationship between multitasking well-being work, that dimension autonomous motivation autonomy rela...