Smartphones can be distraction from other tasks
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Are you distracted at work, turning it to your phone for a little scrolling scroll? A solution is to put your phone out of reach, but unfortunately it seems that it can not work.
“People turn the phone down the top down, hide under a notebook, sometimes you see somewhat fatalist” behind my shoulders, “he said,” he says Maxi Heitmayer London London economy and politics at the School of Science. He has learned the use of the phone before and has seen people interact with their devices About 5 minutes.
To see if this distraction can be avoided, heitmayer and his colleagues were between 22 and 32, between 22 and 31, in a private room that worked on laptops. One day, the participants kept your phone in front of the arm. In a second, the phone kept the phone at a second table 1.5 meters, which should have put on standing.
The researchers found that the volunteers spent 23 minutes on the first day they performed leisure activities, but spent 16 minutes when the devices were farther away. However, they didn’t work more on the second day. “You can use the phone less, but that very long scrolling in social media is longer than wanting to laptop”, says heitmayer.
“This shows what is not the device itself, but more underlying activity, maybe social media or games or people do it online,” says Daantje derks Rotterdam of Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
However, it emphasizes that there are greater studies to monitor people in the normal initial environment to check these initial results. “It is an experimental laboratory study. It usually has other people around, and their life is much more dynamic than this configuration, so it can change how they work,” says Derks.
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