Continuous partial attention - Revision history

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-===History===
+===Definition===
-A term coined by [[Linda Stone]].
+Continuous partial attention is the state of paying partial attention to several information streams at once, continuously, in order not to miss anything — a scanning mode in which nothing receives full attention and nothing is entirely ignored.
-===Definition===
+'''Multitasking''' is motivated by efficiency. The tasks are usually routine or automatic — eating while reading, walking while talking — and the goal is to get more done. Its emotional register is neutral.
-Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today. It is different from multi-tasking. The two are differentiated by the impulse that motivates them. When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We’re often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing. We give the same priority to much of what we do when we multi-task — we file and copy papers, talk on the phone, eat lunch — we get as many things done at one time as we possibly can in order to make more time for ourselves and in order to be more efficient and more productive.
+===Relevance to Cyborg Anthropology===
 ===Related Reading===
-[[Linda Stone]]
+* [[Attention Economy]]
 ===External Reading===
 http://lindastone.net/qa/continuous-partial-attention/

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	Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today. It is different from multi-tasking. The two are differentiated by the impulse that motivates them. When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We’re often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing. We give the same priority to much of what we do when we multi-task — we file and copy papers, talk on the phone, eat lunch — we get as many things done at one time as we possibly can in order to make more time for ourselves and in order to be more efficient and more productive.		Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today. It is different from multi-tasking. The two are differentiated by the impulse that motivates them. When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We’re often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing. We give the same priority to much of what we do when we multi-task — we file and copy papers, talk on the phone, eat lunch — we get as many things done at one time as we possibly can in order to make more time for ourselves and in order to be more efficient and more productive.

	====External Reading====		===Related Reading===
			[[Linda Stone]]

			===External Reading===
	http://lindastone.net/qa/continuous-partial-attention/		http://lindastone.net/qa/continuous-partial-attention/

Caseorganic at 18:53, 27 January 2011

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			===History===
	A term coined by [[Linda Stone]].		A term coined by [[Linda Stone]].

			===Definition===

			Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today. It is different from multi-tasking. The two are differentiated by the impulse that motivates them. When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We’re often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing. We give the same priority to much of what we do when we multi-task — we file and copy papers, talk on the phone, eat lunch — we get as many things done at one time as we possibly can in order to make more time for ourselves and in order to be more efficient and more productive.

			====External Reading====
			http://lindastone.net/qa/continuous-partial-attention/

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	===Related Reading===		===Related Reading===
	* [[Attention Economy]]		* [[The Attention Economy]]
	* [[Calm Technology]]		* [[Calm Technology]]
	* [[Ambient Intimacy]]		* [[Ambient Intimacy]]
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	* [[Frictional Interface]]		* [[Frictional Interface]]
	* [[Linda Stone]]		* [[Linda Stone]]


	===References===		===References===