Multitasking is an essential skill to develop during Emergency Medicine (EM) residency. Residents who struggle to cope in a multitasking environment risk fatigue, stress, and burnout. Improper management of interruption has been causally linked with medical errors. Formal teaching and evaluation of multitasking is often lacking in EM residency programs. This article reviewed the literature on m...

With the growing popularity of mobile web service and mobile devices, mobile multitasking behaviour is becoming an important issue for mobile commerce among practitioners and academics. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of polychronicity preference, mobile self-efficacy and anxious trait on multitasking behaviour and the multitasking post-behaviour state of mind. The result...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify the cognitive factors that predictability and adaptability during multitasking with a flight simulator. BACKGROUND Multitasking has become increasingly prevalent as most professions require individuals to perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Considerable research has been undertaken to identify the characteristics of people (i.e., individual d...

Although research evidence indicates that multitasking results in poorer learning and poorer performance, many students engage with text messaging, Facebook, internet searching, emailing, and instant messaging, while sitting in university classrooms. Research also suggests that multitasking may be related to risk behaviors. This study’s purpose was to describe the multitasking behaviors occurri...

Interest in multitasking has risen substantially over the past decade, both in the scientific community and the population at large. Largescale surveys show thatmultitasking has not only become ubiquitous among adults, but is also increasingly invading the lives of young children. New technological devices promote multitasking allowing for the consumption of multiple types of media at the same ...

Due to emerging technology, efficient multitasking approach is highly demanded. But it is hard to accomplish in heterogeneous wireless networks, where diverse networks have dissimilar geometric features in service and traffic models. Multitasking loss examination based on Markov chain becomes inflexible in these networks owing to rigorous computations is obligatory. This paper emphases on the p...

With the ever-increasing stream of information we are expected to deal with on a moment-to-moment basis, human multitasking behavior has become an important part of modern society. Multitasking can occur on many different timescales. Our interest is in concurrent multitasking: attempting to fulfill multiple goals in parallel. There have been many investigations to determine whether concurrent m...

We studied the affect infusing capability of multitasking (by task switching) in a computer based environment. Our central thesis is that multitasking places increased cognitive load and cognitive switching costs on individuals leading to affect infusion during cognitive processing. These effects become magnified and negatively valenced when individuals demonstrate lower self efficacy in the us...

Multitasking has always been a necessary part in emergency services. However, only recently have advances in cognitive psychology and functional MRI studies allowed us to peer into the multitasking mind and the parts of the brain that control it. This program discusses how we can filter out multitasking “noise”, train to multitask better and identify when we need to avoid multitasking altogethe...

Being able to work on several tasks at the same time (multitasking) is an important performance aspect of many jobs. Recent research findings pointed out the important role of working memory for multitasking performance in general. To understand more about the role of working memory in predicting the speed and the error aspect of multitasking performance, this research was based on a newly deve...