Studying the "Inner CEO" can improve interface design, personnel training and diagnosis of brain damage. Recent scientific studies reveal the hidden costs of multitasking, key findings such as technology increasingly temps people to do more than one thing (and increasingly, more thanone complicated thing) at a time. Joshua Rubeinstein, Ph.D. of the Federal Aviation Administration and David Meyer, Ph.D and Jeffrey Evans Ph.D both at the University of Michigan describe their research the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance" published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
To better understand executive control, as well as, the human capacity for multitasking and its limitations, these three studied patterns in the amounts of time lost whne people switched repeatedly between two tasks of varying complexity and familiarity.
Tomorrow, I'll go into what they found. It will greatly interest YOU!!!
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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