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Michael Gazzanigo; Alexa Quesnel; Catalina Roldan; Xiao Yang – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
Cognitive effects of cellphone dependency among young adults have garnered increasing research attention. While cellphones have been identified as a distractor in daily tasks, related psychological processes remain unclear. As a potential mechanism underlying those effects of cellphones, excessive working memory (WM) load has not yet been well…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Reaction Time
Karadag, Ruhan; Kayabasi, Bekir – Online Submission, 2013
Today, one of the most important sources forcing the educational institutions to alteration is the developments in informatics and communication technologies. Among these alterations, the internet and the tablet computers, which may cause a vital transformation in the history of education, are of importance. Making assumptions, based on today,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Information Technology, Handwriting
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Byrd, Keena S.; Caldwell, Barrett S. – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2011
The primary objective of this research was to compare procedure-based task performance using three common mobile screen sizes: ultra mobile personal computer (7 in./17.8 cm), personal data assistant (3.5 in./8.9 cm), and SmartPhone (2.8 in./7.1 cm). Subjects used these three screen sizes to view and execute a computer maintenance procedure.…
Descriptors: Intervals, Memory, Job Skills, Comparative Analysis