TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of visual spatial structure on textual conversational multitasking
AU - Dresner, Eli
AU - Barak, Segev
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Textual computer-mediated communication gives rise to conversational multitasking—participation in several concomitant synchronous textual conversations. This study examined how this communication competence is affected by several visual parameters—the distance between conversation windows, number of windows, and window size. Results show that comprehension of concomitant textual conversations is not affected by the distance between conversation windows, and that the advantage of separating conversation threads into distinct windows is greater when overall window size is larger. This study considers the implications and applications of these results to communicative multitasking phenomena, in general, which become prevalent in technologically advanced societies.
AB - Textual computer-mediated communication gives rise to conversational multitasking—participation in several concomitant synchronous textual conversations. This study examined how this communication competence is affected by several visual parameters—the distance between conversation windows, number of windows, and window size. Results show that comprehension of concomitant textual conversations is not affected by the distance between conversation windows, and that the advantage of separating conversation threads into distinct windows is greater when overall window size is larger. This study considers the implications and applications of these results to communicative multitasking phenomena, in general, which become prevalent in technologically advanced societies.
KW - Computer-Mediated Communication
KW - Interactive Written Discourse
KW - Internet
KW - Multitasking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77956968290&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01463370802664776
DO - 10.1080/01463370802664776
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AN - SCOPUS:77956968290
SN - 1522-6514
VL - 57
SP - 104
EP - 115
JO - International Journal of Phytoremediation
JF - International Journal of Phytoremediation
IS - 1
ER -