FORCASTING ERRORS IN STUDENT MEDIA MULTITASKING DURING HOMEWORK COMPLETION. Christopher A. Baker, Brittany E. Noah, Charles C. Calderwood, Jeffrey D. Green, Jennifer A. Joy-Gaba & Jaclyn M. Moloney, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA 232842018. Many students report that they multitask with media while doing homework, but we know very little about why they en...

The present paper presents an overview of research on the role of saccades in multitasking. Multitasking is known to cause performance costs in terms of increased response times and/or error rates. However, most of the previous research on multitasking was focused on manual and vocal action demands, and the role of eye movements has been largely neglected. As a consequence, saccade execution wa...

a r t i c l e i n f o Although some research has shown a negative relation between Facebook use and academic performance, more recent research suggests that this relation is likely mitigated by multitasking. This study examined the time students at different class ranks spent on Facebook, the time they spent multitasking with Facebook, as well as the activities they engaged in on the site (N = ...

Recent generations of FPGAs allow run-time partial reconfiguration. To increase the efficacy of reconfigurable computing, multitasking on FPGAs is proposed. One of the challenging problems in multitasking systems is online template placement. In this paper, we describe how existing algorithms work, and propose a new multi-stage method for mapping of tasks to reconfigurable hardware. Also a new ...

The risk of multitasking is high in online surveys. However, knowledge on the effects answer quality sparse and based suboptimal approaches. Research reports inconclusive results concerning consequences task performance. studies suggest that especially sequential-multitasking activities are expected to be critical. Therefore, this study focusses sequential-on-device-multitasking (SODM) its for ...

Background: Though many gaze-control systems have been designed, previous realtime gaze-aware assistance systems were not both successful and domain-general. It is largely unknown what constitutes optimal search efficiency using the eyes, or ideal control using the mouse. It is unclear what the best coordinating strategies are between these two modalities. Our previously developed closed-loop m...

It is well established that 30-50% of persons infected with HIV-1 exhibit neuropsychological impairment. A subset of individuals with HIV-associated neurocognitive impairment experience related deficits in "real world" functioning (i.e., independently performing instrumental activities of daily living \[IADL\]). While performance-based tests of everyday functioning are reasonably sensitive to H...

As cognitive architectures move to account for increasingly complex real-world tasks, one of the most pressing challenges involves understanding and modeling human multitasking. Although a number of existing models now perform multitasking in real-world scenarios, these models typically employ customized executives that schedule tasks for the particular domain but do not generalize easily to ot...

The bulk of responsibility for domestic work and childcare in heterosexual couples falls on women. But the means they find to cope with this load, and how these means relate to the factors underpinning the division of labor are not often studied. Two much-cited ways of reducing overall work time are purchasing domestic assistance (outsourcing) and the multitasking of domestic/caring tasks. Usin...