Journal
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 888-895Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.12.023
Keywords
Media multitasking; Online message processing; Relevance; Cue density; Limited capacity; Multitasking performance
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In this study, strategies involving use of message relevance and formatting cues were tested with the objective of enhancing media multitasking performance. Three memory measures, free recall, aided/cued recall, and recognition were used as dependent variables for the study. The results indicated that multitasking was associated with reduced memory performance for all the dependent measures. Similarly, the performance for high relevance messages was significantly higher than the performance for low relevance messages across all memory measures. Additional analyses revealed that people made more errors during recognition tasks during multitasking. Similarly, more people made errors in free recall tasks during multitasking. Overall, findings suggested that multitasking might have more negative influence on message processing in some contexts than others. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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