SYRUS: Understanding and Predicting Multitasking Performance

Abstract

This report is organized as follows: First, a broad definition of multitasking performance is offered and important considerations related to this definition. Second, an outline of the many task and environmental characteristics that potentially influence multitasking performance in critical ways is suggested. Third, specific cognitive and non-cognitive variables are identified as prime candidates for predicting multitasking performance, and specific research-based predictions follow. Fourth, related to the previous point, a summarization of our initial empirical work on multitasking, based on college-student participants who engaged in a computerized multitasking performance task. Fifth, we conclude by suggesting several avenues that may be profitable for conducting future research on multitasking performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA469228

Entities

People

  • D. Z. Hambrick
  • Frederick L. Oswald
  • L. A. Jones
  • Sonia S. Ghumman

Organizations

  • Michigan State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Applied Psychology
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Employment
  • Factor Analysis
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Processing
  • Instructors
  • Military Research
  • Personnel Management
  • Personnel Selection
  • Psychology
  • Schools
  • Students
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Universities
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.