Title :
Pre-service teachers´ media multitasking behaviors with smart devices
Author :
Song, Ki-Sang ; Nam, Sang Chun ; Kim, Jae Kyung
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Educ., Korea Nat. Univ. of Educ., Chungju, South Korea
Abstract :
The possibility of media multitasking with mobile devices greatly increased due to the wide spared of smart devices such as smart phones and tablet PCs such as iPad. There are controversies of the effect of multitasking to users´ work achievement, and in this paper we first surveyed the pre-service teachers´ behaviors of multitasking with information technologies during their school lives. Then we have analyzed their multitasking patterns using eye movements while they are taking an e-learning program as a main job, and distracted activities such as web surfing, listening music, and online chatting are allowed. From the observations, we found that students with higher frequency of media multitasking habit spend almost 63.4% of lower time to their main job, and 5.8 times more on web surfing.
Keywords :
Web services; behavioural sciences; computer aided instruction; educational institutions; mobile computing; multimedia computing; multiprocessing programs; smart phones; Web surfing; distracted activity; e-learning program; eye movement; information technology; media multitasking; mobile device; preservice teacher behavior; school; smart device; Computers; Electronic learning; Media; Multitasking; Smart phones; Time frequency analysis; Tracking; information overload; media multitasking; pre-service teachers; smart devices;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2332-1
DOI :
10.1109/ITHET.2012.6246033