{"id":763,"date":"2008-11-13T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=763"},"modified":"2008-11-13T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T16:10:09","slug":"email-the-technology-and-psychology-of-continuous-partial-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2008\/11\/13\/email-the-technology-and-psychology-of-continuous-partial-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Email: the technology and psychology of continuous partial attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk on Wednesday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufi.com\/\">UFI<\/a> in Sheffield entitled &#8220;Email: the technology and psychology of continuous partial attention&#8221;, which was a brief little intro to some of my thoughts about the psychology of email use (the phrase &#8216;continuous partial attention&#8217; I owe to <a href=\"http:\/\/continuouspartialattention.jot.com\/WikiHome\">Linda Stone<\/a>, whose thoughts on the matter are far more considered than mine). Here is the abstract from my talk:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhat did you interrupt to read this? Chances are you were in the middle of something, or maybe several things, which you put on hold to find out what I&#8217;m going to talk about. I&#8217;m a research psychologist with an interest in technology, learning and communication. In my talk I&#8217;ll tell you why email has such a compulsive hold on people&#8217;s attention, how to spot true email addiction, why technology which helps you know less actually makes you smarter, and how there&#8217;s both good and bad in the multitasking habit. Now &#8211; what were you doing again?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk on Wednesday at UFI in Sheffield entitled &#8220;Email: the technology and psychology of continuous partial attention&#8221;, which was a brief little intro to some of my thoughts about the psychology of email use (the phrase &#8216;continuous partial attention&#8217; I owe to Linda Stone, whose thoughts on the matter are far more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-cj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}