Multitasking and ad enjoyment: does our perception of time's passage mediate the relationship between multitasking and ad enjoyment

Balaji, Shweta, and McLoughlin, Aoife (2017) Multitasking and ad enjoyment: does our perception of time's passage mediate the relationship between multitasking and ad enjoyment. In: Timing and Time Perception Reviews: Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference of the Timing Research Forum. From: 1st Conference of the Timing Research Forum, 23-25 October 2017, Strasbourg, France.

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Previous research on the effects of multitasking on media content have found that content can become more positively evaluated when one is doing multiple tasks (Voorveld, 2011). Multitasking may be particularly likely to affect advertising because ads are often avoided by engaging in another task during exposure to the ad content (Speck & Elliott, 1997). When people multitask with media, ad messages are rarely the sole focus of attention. Chinchanachokchai et al. (2015) explored the relationship between multitasking and time perception as well as the relationship between multitasking and task enjoyment alongside ad evaluation. Their study found that the mediating role of the perception of time passing had a resulting positive effect on ad evaluation, and that positive evaluation was likely not due to limited capacity in the attention system. Rather, the feedback response to the ads appeared to be the feeling that time seemed to pass unexpectedly fast. This paper presents work which extends on Chinchanachokchai et al's project, again investigating the mediating effect of time perception on ad evaluation, this time using more generalizable, everyday tasks. Participants were tested on one computer screen which displayed between one and three tasks depending on condition. Tasks included Space Invaders gameplay, a reading comprehension task and television advertisement. Findings and implications are also discussed.

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