Just a quick note to add resources made available by 2 research groups on information overload and interruptions, following the entry about Distraction(s)...
"The person figured here is not an autonomous, rational actor but an unfolding, shifting biography of culturally and materially specific experiences, relations, and possibilities inflected by each next encounter (...) in uniquely particular ways." (Lucy Suchman, Human-machine reconfigurations: plans and situated actions, 2009, 281)
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Jun 26, 2009
Feb 23, 2009
Distraction(s)...
... with artefacts that carry a lot of embedded tools and information within them.
Not so long ago (15 years), a PC would carry mainly a set of very restrictive production tools. Today we have a plethora of installed tools (and gadgets) available in our computers, and an open door (internet access) of millions of other available for us to play with and/or install.
How does this affect PIM? How distracted are we? Does this explain, for example, the difficulties of reading an entire PDF on the computer without interrupting to:
- open another pdf
- find papers from the same author
- search database for (new concept found, .... ) before finishing the reading
- ... constant switching between reading pdf and other (available/competing) information
Are there gender differences in how these distractions affect PIM efforts? Do they have any relation to multitasking?
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