Re: [Air-l] New Generation Multi-Tasking
Re: [Air-l] New Generation Multi-Tasking I would like to present a little bit provocative question: does the multitasking really exists? Also computers do NOT really do 2 things parallel, they just do this 2 things very fast and we percieve it as multitasking. But what is really multitasking in our life? Do we multitask if we change tasks every 1 minute, every hour or every day? Can we call it multitasking when we go only for lunch? (Probably not because we are not used to call it multitasking.) I never know what can I call multitasking and what I can't, do you have any criteria for this? Btw I presented a poster about adolescents' multiple communication at the EARA conference in Antalya, you can find it on my web: http://www.terapie.cz/materials/smahel-antalya-2006.pdf It was just an explorative research. I wanted first of all to show the connection between the flow phenomenon and the communication multitasking and to say that it is very common among adolescents. Do you know any good papers about multitasking? I know so few of them and I thing that the research is on the beginning here... Regards, David --- David Smahel, M.Sc. et Ph.D. Institute of Children, Youth and Family Research School of Social Studies Masaryk University Brno www.fss.muni.cz Jostova 10, 602 00 Brno Czech Republic e-mail: smahel@fss.muni.cz tel: +420604234898
David, In case you didn't see my other response. In experimental psychology, they operationalize "multi-tasking" as moving between multiple tasks in an effort to complete both, rather than completing them sequentially - doing one until finished, then the other etc. So, it's really the same as the computer in that they are moving between two things very fast (for humans). ... Richard -- Richard H. Hall http://richardhhall.org On 10/14/06 2:25 PM, "David Smahel" <smahel@fss.muni.cz> wrote:
Re: [Air-l] New Generation Multi-Tasking
I would like to present a little bit provocative question: does the multitasking really exists? Also computers do NOT really do 2 things parallel, they just do this 2 things very fast and we percieve it as multitasking. But what is really multitasking in our life? Do we multitask if we change tasks every 1 minute, every hour or every day? Can we call it multitasking when we go only for lunch? (Probably not because we are not used to call it multitasking.) I never know what can I call multitasking and what I can't, do you have any criteria for this?
Btw I presented a poster about adolescents' multiple communication at the EARA conference in Antalya, you can find it on my web: http://www.terapie.cz/materials/smahel-antalya-2006.pdf It was just an explorative research. I wanted first of all to show the connection between the flow phenomenon and the communication multitasking and to say that it is very common among adolescents.
Do you know any good papers about multitasking? I know so few of them and I thing that the research is on the beginning here...
Regards,
David
--- David Smahel, M.Sc. et Ph.D.
Institute of Children, Youth and Family Research School of Social Studies Masaryk University Brno www.fss.muni.cz Jostova 10, 602 00 Brno Czech Republic
e-mail: smahel@fss.muni.cz tel: +420604234898
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