Because of its portability and popularity, ICT devices promote the phenomenon of multitasking, and studying its mechanism is helpful to understand the essence of this phenomenon. Firstly, this paper employs online ethnography, in-depth interviews and other methods to obtain eighty video/picture samples and sixteen interviewees in four types of multitasking context as data sources. Secondly, a description framework of ICT-using behavior in the context of multitasking was constructed and verified from four aspects: behavioral motivation, context-related factors, resource-related factors required by tasks, and evaluation of behavioral results, and the mechanism of multi-task behavior was explained, focusing on identifying three categories of ICT use behaviors: resource-complementary, resource-competitive, and resource-alternating & complementary. Finally, from the perspective of library and information profession, this paper puts forward three points of reflections on environment, resources and service to better cope with challenges created by the phenomenon of multitasking for users and information professionals.
Han Yanfang Yan Hui Zheng Guangchun Gao Chunzhi. Research on the Mechanism of ICT Usage Behavior in Multi-tasking Context. Library & Information. 2023, 43(03): 71-81 https://doi.org/10.11968/tsyqb.1003-6938.2023040