Emergency physicians work in a fast-paced environment that is characterized by frequent interruptions and the expectation that they will perform multiple tasks efficiently and without error while maintaining oversight of the entire emergency department. However, there is a lack of definition and understanding of the behaviors that constitute effective task switching and multitasking, as well as...

Asian societies have adopted electronic media in equal measure to western societies. Media use, its impacts and correlates have been examined in western and some Asian societies, but this study is unique in examining Malaysian students’ use of media. Malaysian and American college students reported their electronic media use, reading activities and patterns of multitasking with media while stud...

The human brain exhibits fundamental limitations in multitasking. When subjects engage in a primary task, their ability to respond to a second stimulus is degraded. Two competing models of multitasking have been proposed: either cognitive resources are shared between tasks, or they are allocated to each task serially. Using a novel combination of magneto-encephalography and multivariate pattern...

Android multitasking provides rich features to enhance user experience and offers great flexibility for app developers to promote app personalization. However, the security implication of Android multitasking remains under-investigated. With a systematic study of the complex tasks dynamics, we find design flaws of Android multitasking which make all recent versions of Android vulnerable to task...

While cognitive models of complex tasks have begun to incorporate increasingly sophisticated models of human multitasking, most models have utilized customized executives (Kieras et al., 2000) that fine-tune specific multitasking mechanisms for particular applications. This paper proposes a general executive for multitasking that facilitates the integration of separate task models and subsequen...

The paper presents a new type of system architecture for distributed embedded systems, whereby a system is composed from embedded actors that communicate transparently by exchanging labeled messages (signals), independent of their allocation onto network nodes. Signals are exchanged at precisely specified time instants in accordance with the concept of Timed Multitasking, whereby actors can be ...

Computer-based multitasking behavior has become commonplace, however its efficacy in co-located settings is disputed. An important question therefore is how computer-based multitasking can be controlled when traditional organizational control mechanisms are infeasible or unavailable. We conceptualize and operationalize computer-based multitasking in terms of on-task and off-task uses. Our resea...

The current study explored media use and media multitasking activities among college students in Kuwait based on the results of a cross-sectional survey (N=179). The study examined what types of media students in Kuwait use the most, with which media they multitask the most, and what multitasking pairs are the most common. It was also explored how media ownership, sensation seeking, and demogra...

This paper is concerned about multitasking embedded software development from the system specification to the final implementation including design space exploration(DSE). In the proposed framework, dataflow model is used for task specification. Multitasking software is generated for the performance evaluation of architecture candidates during the DSE process. Since the same code is also used f...

One of the most salient and well-recognized features of human goal-directed behavior is our limited ability to conduct multiple demanding tasks at once. Previous work has identified overlap between task processing pathways as a limiting factor for multitasking performance in neural architectures. This raises an important question: insofar as shared representation between tasks introduces the ri...