Smartphones can be a distraction from other tasks
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Do you find yourself dispersed at work, and to turn into your smartphone for a little teller scroll? One of the solutions is to get your phone out of hand – but unfortunately, this may not work.
“People run it on my shoulder”: “People are heading upside down, and they hide it under a notebook, and sometimes you see” throw it on my shoulder. ” Maxi Heitmayer At London College of Economics and Political Science in London. He previously studied the use of the phone and found that people interact with their devices About 5 minutes.
To see if this distraction can be avoided, Heitmayer and his colleagues scored 22 university students and office workers, aged between 22 and 31, and they work as usual on laptops on an office in a private room. In one day, the participants kept their phones on hand. In the second, they kept their phone on a second office 1.5 meters away, which means that they had to stand to check out.
The researchers found that the volunteers died on average 23 minutes in implementing entertainment activities on their phones on the first day, but they spent 16 minutes when their devices were farther. However, they are no longer on the second day – instead, the participants simply spent more time carrying out leisure activities on their mobile computer, most of them on social media. “You can use the phone less, but this full scroll on social media for a longer period than you only intend to emigrate to the laptop,” says Heitmayer.
He says: “This indicates that what distracts attention is not the device itself, but the most basic activity, so perhaps social media, gambling or anything that people do on the Internet,” he says. Daantje derks At Erasmus Rotterdam University in the Netherlands.
However, it indicates that large studies that follow people in their regular work environment are necessary to verify these initial results. “It is a trial laboratory study – people usually have other people around them, and their lives are more dynamic than this preparation, so this may change how they work.”
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