Effects of visual spatial structure on textual conversational multitasking

Eli Dresner*, Segev Barak

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)104-115
Number of pages12
JournalInternational Journal of Phytoremediation
Volume57
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Keywords

  • Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Interactive Written Discourse
  • Internet
  • Multitasking

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