Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions: Effect of Context Switching On Prospective Memory
2023/02/07 by Francesco Chiossi, Luke Haliburton, Changkun Ou +2 · 7 voices · 7 citations
Psychology · Neuroscience · #Cognitive Functions and Memory #EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/3544548.3580778
Abstract
Social media platforms use short, highly engaging videos to catch users’ attention. While the short-form video feeds popularized by TikTok are rapidly spreading to other platforms, we do not yet understand their impact on cognitive functions. We conducted a between-subjects experiment (N = 60) investigating the impact of engaging with TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube while performing a Prospective Memory task (i.e., executing a previously planned action). The study required participants to remember intentions over interruptions. We found that the TikTok condition significantly degraded the users’ performance in this task. As none of the other conditions (Twitter, YouTube, no activity) had a similar effect, our results indicate that the combination of short videos and rapid context-switching impairs intention recall and execution. We contribute a quantified understanding of the effect of social media feed format on Prospective Memory and outline consequences for media technology designers to not harm the users’ memory and wellbeing.
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Discussions
- Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714 Ht: HowTown [bsky, 716 points, 10 comments]
- ciekawe badanie o tym jak tiktoki, reelsy i inne stories robio nam wode z mozgu arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714 [bsky, 4 points, 1 comments]
- Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions (2023) [hn, 2 points, 0 comments]
- Little videos are cooking our brains [lemmy, 1 points, 0 comments]
- 補個論文（不知道泛科學做成短影片了沒） arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- short form video feeds are ini in how they affect you from all others: arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- “Short video streams such as TikTok have a significant detrimental impact on prospective memory performance. Specifically, users showed a worsened speed/accuracy trade-offs as compared to all other ex [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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