To phub or not to phub: Understanding off-task smartphone usage and its consequences in the academic environment
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Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2017. Atlanta: Association for Information Systems, 2017. p. 1984-1999 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems; Vol. 25).
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T1 - To phub or not to phub
T2 - 25th European Conference on Information Systems - ECIS 2017
AU - Abramova, Olga
AU - Baumann, Annika
AU - Krasnova, Hanna
AU - Lessmann, Stefan
N1 - Conference code: 25
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This study was inspired in part by calls for research to explore the ubiquitous phenomenon of phubbing in the academic environment. The goal of our study is to explore the phenomenon of phubbing and its consequences among students. Combining observations, questionnaires, quasi-experimental research design and focus groups interviews, our findings suggest that students phub a substantial amount of lecture time and often underestimate the effect this behavior has on their learning process. The quasi-experimental study shows that the number of times a student looks at a smartphone during the lecture is negatively related to the visual attention, while the total duration of smartphone use worsens the auditory attention. Follow-up analysis of the focus group interviews uncovers the causes of the phenomenon and possible preventive measures. The study thus contributes to a growing body of IS research on undesirable consequences of ICT use and provides implications for IS practitioners, simultaneously calling for a better solution of the problem commonly witnessed by the universities: the improvement of the educational process and student performance in the digital society.
AB - This study was inspired in part by calls for research to explore the ubiquitous phenomenon of phubbing in the academic environment. The goal of our study is to explore the phenomenon of phubbing and its consequences among students. Combining observations, questionnaires, quasi-experimental research design and focus groups interviews, our findings suggest that students phub a substantial amount of lecture time and often underestimate the effect this behavior has on their learning process. The quasi-experimental study shows that the number of times a student looks at a smartphone during the lecture is negatively related to the visual attention, while the total duration of smartphone use worsens the auditory attention. Follow-up analysis of the focus group interviews uncovers the causes of the phenomenon and possible preventive measures. The study thus contributes to a growing body of IS research on undesirable consequences of ICT use and provides implications for IS practitioners, simultaneously calling for a better solution of the problem commonly witnessed by the universities: the improvement of the educational process and student performance in the digital society.
KW - ICT in education
KW - Multitasking
KW - Phubbing
KW - Smartphones
KW - Business informatics
KW - Informatics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049343459&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2017_rp/127/
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85049343459
T3 - Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems
SP - 1984
EP - 1999
BT - Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2017
PB - Association for Information Systems
CY - Atlanta
Y2 - 5 June 2017 through 10 June 2017
ER -