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Everything about Human multitasking
Ability to perform activities simultaneously
Human multitasking is a concept that one can split their attention on more than one task or activity at the same time, such as speaking on the phone while driving a car. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Human multitaskingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The mitochondrial unfolded protein response: A multitasking giant in the fight against human diseasesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: SingletaskingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Validating Human–Robot Interaction Schemes in Multitasking EnvironmentsCited 208 times
- Go sideways: Media multitaskingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: AttentionA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Validating Human–Robot Interaction Schemes in Multitasking Environments
Formal modeling and analysis of safety-critical human multitasking
Multitasking Human Endometrium
HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND THE TRANSITION FROM SPECIALIZATION TO MULTITASKING
New perspectives on human multitasking
An experimental paradigm for the assessment of realistic human multitasking
Interruption Management in Human Multitasking Environments
Individual Differences in Human-Robot Interaction in a Military Multitasking Environment
🆕 Influential since 2022
The mitochondrial unfolded protein response: A multitasking giant in the fight against human diseases
Ultrafast fMRI reveals serial queuing of information processing during multitasking in the human brain
Network Neuroscience of Human Multitasking: Local Connections Matter
MULTITASKING, DISTRACTION, AND VULNERABILITY: HUMAN SECURITY IN A DIGITAL AGE
May I Have Your Attention?! Exploring Multitasking in Human-Robot Collaboration
📚 Books worth reading
SingletaskingDevora Zack · 2015
The Economics of MultitaskingCharlene M. Kalenkoski, Gigi Foster · 2014
The myth of multitaskingDave Crenshaw · 2008
The multitasking mindDario D. Salvucci · 2010
A Prehistory of Ordinary PeopleMonica L. Smith · 2010
Meditation for multitaskersDavid B. Dillard-Wright · 2011
Multitasking Mom's Survival GuideJack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen · 2014- 📕Essential Time ManagementBrett Hilder · 2011
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