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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Smartphone notifications are known to impair sustained attention.
  • Previous research indicates deficits in sustained attention performance when notifications are received during tasks.
  • The Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) is a common tool for measuring sustained attention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To re-examine the impact of smartphone notifications on sustained attention.
  • To differentiate the individual effects of audio versus visual notifications.
  • To investigate how notifications influence reaction times and error rates during the SART.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed the SART under fixed and random conditions.
  • Visual pop-up notifications were presented during half of the trials.
  • Auditory notifications were presented during the other half of the trials.

Main Results:

  • Notifications significantly impacted overall sustained attention performance.
  • Visual notifications resulted in a higher error rate compared to auditory notifications.
  • Both notification types led to slower reaction times.

Conclusions:

  • Smartphone notifications, particularly visual ones, negatively affect sustained attention.
  • The modality of the notification (visual vs. auditory) influences the degree of performance impairment.
  • Further research is needed to understand the mechanisms behind these attentional deficits.